MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency

Chile plans national park in Tierra del Fuego

A feasibility project for the creation, design and management of a Tierra del Fuego Regional Park was signed this week between Chilean government officials and a private company Sustentable.

The park is an initiative from the Magallanes Region government which is also surveying other areas with the purpose of achieving sustainable private sector development investments linked to tourism promotion and environment conservation either through concession, rent, leasing or sale.

The Tierra del Fuego regional park involves 972,000 hectares of fiscal land in the extreme south of Chilean Tierra del Fuego with majestic landscape, century old woods, shared lakes with Argentina, streams, wild life and the Darwin mountain range permanently covered with snow and ice according to Miguel García Cuevas head of the National Assets Office in Magallanes.

The 200.000 US dollar project should be presented in 13 months time.

In related news a full delegation from Magallanes Region will be participating with a stand in the International Marketing and Communications Congress to be held in Santiago this week with thousands of foreign delegates registered.

The stand will promote tourism and investments in the region, and Magallanes governor Jaime Jelincic and several of his cabinet members will be addressing sixty foreign tourism businessmen to interest them in the region.

"It's a new activity, winning markets and we will make it extensive to the big gatherings in Santiago, whenever necessary. It's a wonderful showcase opportunity", said Miguel Angel Muñoz Magallanes Tourism Office Director.