News from Patagonia Argentina
Four regions of Rio Negro Province will be benefited thanks to the tourism plan that seeks to activate six new destinations.
The Corridor of the Cliffs, a new ski resort at Cerro Perito Moreno, the implementation of all the events of the Trochita Somuncurá Plateau, Valley and Lower Cretaceous of Gualicho are the six destinations of Rio Negro Province to show the world as a reference of Patagonia Argentina.
During the First Provincial Congress of Rio Negro Province Tourism, held during March in the city of San Carlos de Bariloche, the authorities confirmed that the province will have a ‘true state policy’ to a position in national and international markets. And one of the strategies will work in the promotion of new destinations and products in the region.
Juan Salguero, director of Tourism Development, Ministry of Tourism of Rio, said in talks with Tur News: ‘will seek to value undeveloped areas or are still unknown to many travelers and even for the Río Negro, each region has its particularity and the idea is that each can be discovered ‘.
Cliffs Corridor
One of the first destinations to be promoted is the Corridor of the cliffs. ‘From the Condor-spa just minutes from Viedma, provincial capital to Puerto Lobos, which is the last destination on the coast of Rio Negro, there are five protected areas with beaches and cliffs that are not utilized as it should, people focus lot in Grottoes, and rightly so, but there are other people looking for peace of mind, and is what will develop, “said the former mayor of the National Park Nahuel Huapi.
He also noted that “it is necessary to value protected areas because they are virtually unknown.” These are Punta Bermeja, Caleta de los Loros, San Antonio Bay, a place of interest for the conservation of migratory birds and Puerto Lobos Lobos Islet Complex. In total, this tourist corridor will form a 280 km route on the Atlantic coast in the Rio Negro Province.
– The Provincial Reserve Punta Bermeja is, 33 kilometers from the resort El Condor, was created in 1971 to preserve a coastal which develops the largest colony of sea lions in Patagonia hair. From the runways were also sighted Antarctic birds, terns, cormorants, whales, dolphins and sea lions. There are about 2,100 hectares, which is an interpretation center.
– Nature Reserve Caleta de los Loros is located a few kilometers further south, and is an area of tidal channels, where native wildlife is sighted and draws seafood, including mussels, octopus and crabs. For divers, are the remains of Mary Jane, a sunken ship in the late nineteenth century.
– The San Antonio Bay Nature Reserve was created in 1993 and runs from the Lighthouse Beacon St. Matthias to the basement. It covers about 45 miles of beaches, and its shores are visited by migratory shorebirds shore birds that travel from Tierra del Fuego to the North Pole. The area also protects a number of wetlands, of which poultry food extract.
