Ushuaia Argentina | Top things to do | 2023

Very helpful information for planning a future trip.

Thank you for this excellent video. I had no idea of this wonderful town. It is so clean and nice.

Reminder: The denomination "patagonia" is absolutely Chilean; there is no "Argentine Patagonia"; This was a contemporary appropriation (theft) of the Argentines for purely tourist purposes

"Patagonia" derives from the expression "Patagones" with which the Portuguese navigator, Hernando de Magallanes (1480-1521) called the natives and aborigines who inhabited an area of the southern Atlantic coast that he called “Puerto de San Julián”, and all these territories legally belonged, de jure, to Chile and its direct predecessor: the Kingdom of Chile or the Captaincy General of Chile (1541 to 1776)

Not even two centuries later, in 1776, when the Viceroyalty of the Rio de la Plata was created (the direct predecessor of today's Argentina), those territories belonged to them; because the geographical limits to the south of that viceroyalty were only from Buenos Aires to Mendoza.

One hundred years later, in 1881, while Chile was in full war in the north with Peru and Bolivia; The Argentines took advantage of the Chilean defenselessness in the south, and ended up appropriating all of Chile's eastern Patagonia and, of course, the port of San Julián.

And this is how Argentina maliciously appropriated Chilean eastern Patagonia (the mostly desert part that we see on satellite maps) and is also now trying to take over, for tourist and commercial purposes, an ethnic-cultural history in which it never participated.

Finally, the Patagonians – Aonikenk or Tehuelches – were not only found in the surroundings of Puerto San Julián (the eastern Chilean territory STOLEN by Argentina) but also carried out mostly their activity, intercultural exchanges and settlements in the vicinity of the Strait of Magellan and in less measured in the Torres del Paine National Park (Lake El Toro), both Chilean sites.

Beautiful