SOUTH AMERICA / Cono Sur

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Section SA01  Buenos Aires & Pampa Humeda

Buenos Aires - Bahía Blanca

Travelogue

Distance: 800 km / 500 mi.

Route: Buenos Aires (Argentina) - Bahía Blanca

Highlights: Buenos Aires, Pampas.

Motorcycle and rider will be starting here their South American journey, coming from Africa. 

 

Section SA02  Río Negro & Peninsula Valdés

Bahía Blanca - Trelew

Travelogue

Distance: 1195 km / 745 mi.

Route: Bahía Blanca - Trelew

Highlights: Peninsula Valdés.

 

Section SA03  Chubut & Meseta de Montemayor

Trelew - Comodoro Rivadavia

Travelogue

Distance: 400 km / 250 mi.

Route: Trelew - Comodoro Rivadavia

Highlights: Patagonian Landscape.

 

Section SA04  Patagonia del Sur

Comodoro Rivadavia - Río Gallegos

Travelogue

Distance: 890 km / 555 mi.

Route: Comodoro Rivadavia - Río Gallegos

Highlights: Patagonian Landscape.

 

Section SA05  Tierra del Fuego

Río Gallegos - Ushuaia - Río Gallegos (Loop)

Travelogue

Distance: 1350 km / 845 mi.

Route: Río Gallegos - Ushuaia - Río Gallegos

Highlights: Straight of Magellan, Tierra del Fuego, Ushuaia.

Ushuaia, at the Southern tip of South America, is the counterpart of Cape North (reached earlier in Norway) and is the world's most Southern town.

 

Section SA06  Cordillera Patagónica

Río Gallegos - Coihaique

Travelogue

Distance: 1840 km / 1150 mi.

Route: Río Gallegos - Torres del Paine (Chile) - Coihaique

Highlights: Torres del Paine National Park, Perito Moreno Glacier, Southern Andes Mountains, The Windy "Routa 40".

 

Section SA07  Aisén & Chiloé

Coihaique - Castro (Isla de Chiloé) - Puerto Montt

Travelogue

Distance: 800 km / 500 mi.

Route: Coihaique - Castro (Isla de Chiloé) - Puerto Montt

Highlights: Aisén Region, Isla de Chiloé.

 

Section SA08  Lake District

Puerto Montt - Concepción

Travelogue

Distance: 895 km / 560 mi.

Route: Puerto Montt - Valdivia - Temuco - Concepción

Highlights: Lake District, Osorno Volcano.

 

Section SA09  Valle Central

Concepción - Santiago

Travelogue

Distance: 520 km / 325 mi.

Route: Concepción - Santiago

Highlights: Central Valley, Santiago.

 

Section SA10  Cerro Aconcagua

Santiago - Parque Aconcagua - Santiago

Travelogue

Distance: 335 km / 210 mi.

Route: Santiago - Parque Aconcagua (Argentina) - Santiago

Highlights: Peak Aconcagua.

The Aconcagua peak is the highest in the American continent (North and South), reaching 6,960m (22,835 ft.). 

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