TORRES DEL PAINE SECTOR
 Torres del Paine, Laguna Amarga - Oscar GuineoTorres del Paine sector is an extensive geographic zone with numerous natural attractions that includes from the Torres del Paine National Park, a known world Biosphere Reserve to the limit of Ultima Esperanza and Magallanes provinces. The Fairway lighthouse is the southwestern extreme of the zone and is located in the Pacific Ocean mouth of the Magellan Strait.
TORRES DEL PAINE NATIONAL PARK
Torres del Paine National Park was created in 1959 and declared Biosphere Reserve by UNESCO in 1978. Is located in Ultima Esperanza province, 145 km. north of Puerto Natales. It has 3 accesses: Porteria Sarmiento, Laguna Amarga and Laguna Azul.
It has a surface of 242,242 hectares, with an altitude from 200 meters to 3,050 (Paine Massifs).
PAINE MOUNTAIN CHAIN
It is an impressive joint of mountains, governed by steep granite towers and by the photogenic Corns and the imposing Big Paine. The mountainous massif is crowned by glaciers and surrounded by lakes with aquamarine, emerald, turquoise, sapphire and lapis lazuli colors. A microclimate holds a rich flora and many wild fauna that romps freely around lagoons and among beautiful woods of bearded trees. It is not a surprise that UNESCO designated the place as World Biosphere Reserve or the Chilean State as a National Park.
A web of well kept paths, with widely separated refuges allow access to best corners and had contributed to fill the dreams of trekkers from all over the world. If in addition there are lodgings from camping to well equipped hotels, it is easy to realize why Torres del Paine is the crowning point of every trip to South America and why this park justifies to venture until the edge of the world itself.
THE PAINE HORNS
 Cabalgata en Torres del Paine - P. Nac. Torres del Paine - Claudio AlmarzaThe characteristic black rock that crowns the Paine Horns is an account of the tectonics and icy forces that sculpted this massif. Something more than ten millions years ago, this kind of sedimentary rock covered wide areas in the region. Sometime said rocks had contact with the magma of the inside of the earth, forming the granite rocks. Afterwards, the colossal pressures of the planet bowels made rise these impressive mountains that we know today as Torres del Paine.
When the glacial era came, the ice covered all the territory. Only stacked out the top of the highest mountains. The withdrawal of the ices brought the granite to view, over which remained the black rock not covered by glaciation, because of that today we may appreciate huge Towers with different colors in a same massif, which is doubtless one of the biggest silent shows of Patagonian nature.
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