Carte de voyage - Patagonie (routes et chemins de fer) | ITM

Patagonia has changed dramatically in recent years. Argentina has finally invested in infrastructural improvements to make the region more accessible by paving roads, upgrading airports, building hospitals, encouraging tourism, and making exploration much more pleasant than when I first visited the region. By the shape of the southern third of South America, the map is best shown with the northern portion of Patagonia on one side and goes to the north of what is traditionally thought of as Patagonia to include the La Pampa region and Buenos Aires at the northernmost upper area of the map. As a result, all of Chile south of Conception is also shown. Highway 40, the ‘spinal cord’ of Patagonia, is now paved, or mostly so, making driving reasonably easy. There are rail lines in this northern region, and we have shown them, but I believe that all passenger service has been discontinued. The second side covers the Santa Cruz grasslands, the wonderful Chilean southern islands, and the very po