Los Glaciares National Park (Spanish: Parque Nacional de Los Glaciares, "Glaciers National Park") is a federal protected place in Santa Cruz Province, Argentina. The park covers an place of 726,927 ha (7,269.27 km2; 2,806.68 sq mi), making it the second largest national park in the country. Established vis--vis speaking 11 May 1937,[1] it houses a representative sample of the Magellanic Subpolar Forest and western Patagonian Steppe biodiversity in deafening heavens of conservation. In 1980 it was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.
The park's declare refers to the giant ice hat in the Andes range that feeds 47 large glaciers, of which 13 flow towards the Atlantic Ocean. The ice hat is the largest outside of Antarctica and Greenland. In totaling parts of the world, glaciers establishment at a peak of at least 2,500 m (8,200 ft) above plan sea level, but due to the size of the ice hat, these glaciers begin at unaided 1,500 m (4,900 ft), sliding the length of to 200 m (660 ft) Los Glaciares borders Torres del Paine National Park to the south in Chilean territory.
Los Glaciares, of which 30% is covered by ice, can be separated in two parts, each corresponding once one of the two elongated great lakes partially contained by the park. Lake Argentino, 1,466 km2 (566 sq mi) and the largest in Argentina, is in the south, even if Lake Viedma, 1,100 km2 (420 sq mi), is in the north. Both lakes feed the Santa Cruz River that flows the length of to Puerto Santa Cruz upon the Atlantic. Between the two halves is a non-touristic zone without lakes called Zona Centro.
The northern half consists of part of Viedma Lake, the Viedma Glacier and a few young person glaciers, and a number of mountains each and every one popular amid fans of climbing and trekking, including Mount Fitz Roy and Cerro Torre.
The southern portion has, as skillfully as a number of smaller ones, the major glaciers which flow into Lake Argentino: Perito Moreno Glacier, Upsala Glacier, and Spegazzini Glacier. Typical drying boats travel together with icebergs to visit Baha Onelli, and the otherwise inaccessible Spegazzini and Upsala. The Perito Moreno is easily reached by burning.
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