San Rafael Lagoon

Its natural attributes – which are characterized by a wide array of attractions located in the area of the austral channels, isles, fjords, thermal springs and snowdrifts – determine that its tourist possibilities are related to adventure tourism, in practically all its disciplines and even navigation activities, with cruisers and catamarans visits, which are more and more frequent. In its frozen waters, in the middle of an amazingly beautiful landscape of silent harmony and sculptural glaciers, a wide variety of birds and aquatic animals can be spotted, most of the time when they are resting on the icebergs that float on its greenish waters.
San Rafael Glacier, is one of the highest of the Northern Patagonian Icefields, and it surprises tourists with uproars produced by huge pieces of ice that fall from the enormous ice mass to the lagoon.
The lagoon can be reached by the Tempanos River, from the Elefante Channel. You can sail along it until you get to the ice wall of San Rafael Snowdrift.

Sailing to the south of Chacabuco Port, the main attractions are Laguna San Rafael National Park, declared Biosphere Reserve by UNESCO; and the San Rafael Snowdrift, an ice wall of approximately 100 m height coming from the Northern Patagonian Icefields and from which huge blocks of bluish ice are loosened and fall in the lagoon’s waters.