SONY DSC,Punto Arenas 4681
PUNTA ARENAS km. south of Santiago, the capital of Chile, the urban area presents a population of around inhabitants, with a commercial, cultural and social development that covers the Magellan territory. Punta Arenas is by the Strait of Magellan, in Brunswich peninsula, and was once called "Sandy Point" by J. Byron, who discovered it in the XVII century. Punta Arenas is the continental city farthest south in the world, and a supply port for the developing bioceanic traffic. Among its main attractions are Museo Salesiano Mayorino Borgatello; the monument to the shepperd with his dog, his horse, and his sheep; the cementery; Instituto de la Patagonia, a regional history and resources center with the memory museum in the garden; the town theatre; square Muñoz Gamero with the sculpture in memory of the discovery of the Strait of Magellan by Ferdinand Magellan; and magnificent works conserving their traditions like the Gran Hotel Cabo de Hornos, public buildings, local companies, and the free tax area.
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