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Province Santa Cruz
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Rio Gallegos - its capital city - with its wide commercial development, offers a large range of hotel facilities, deep water harbors and an international airport, with important transpolar flights to different destinations including Antarctica.
The National Parks called Los Glaciares and Perito Moreno, and their lakes, are the most popular tourist destinations.
The tourist center of El Calafate, located on the shore of Lago Argentino, has built a remarkable airport which makes this town more accessible.
The Cueva de las Manos (the Cave of the Hands) - near the town of Perito Moreno, in the proximity of Lago Buenos Aires - constitutes an enduring appeal for vacationers and tourists, with its rupestrian paintings representing human figures and animals, and a huge number of hands in the most varied and suggestive positions.
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Parque Nacional Los Glaciares
Located in the province of Santa Cruz, this breathtaking wonder - which moves visitors to tears - extends over 600,000 hectares and is the second most extensive park after the Nahuel Huapi.
The southern branch of Lago Argentino houses the Perito Moreno glacier, a 60-meter-high ice formation, with a 5-km-long face. Visitors will be amazed at the roar created by the multisized white-and-blue-hued ice blocks continuously falling into the water, which sometimes sounds like explosions.
Parque Nacional Perito Francisco Moreno
This National Park was created in 1937 for the purpose of protecting beautiful forests, mainly lengas, two remarkable lacustrine systems, a stretch of Patagonian steppe, fossil remains, and a diverse fauna.
Situated in northwestern Santa Cruz province, this unit covers 115,000 hectares encompassing a mountainous region crisscrossed by valleys, some of which are over 900 meters above sea level.
Parallel chains of hills and mountains run from east to west and from north to south and, viewed from the park's entrance, look like a gigantic amphitheater. This area is also peppered with eight magnificent lakes.
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