Mountain mist shot of large wooden map of Argentina-Chile Lakes Routway (Puerto Varas-Bariloche), Paso de Perez Rosales, Andes

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In the 19th century most commerce from Bariloche, at the eastern end of the Chile-Argentina Lakes Route, came and went through the Chilean sea port of Puerto Montt. In 1896, for instance, it took three days to reach Puerto Montt, whereas it took a month or more to reach the Atlantic Coast. My tour guide told me that before the opening of the Panama Canal in 1914, the Lakes Route, over the Andean Paso de Perez Rosales, was an important commercial artery between the Pacific and Atlantic Coasts.

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Size: 4287px × 2848px
Location: Paso de Perez Rosales, Chile-Argentina Border, Lakes Route, Andes, South America
Photo credit: © robert harrison / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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