Yendegaia National Park
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IUCN category II (national park)
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Stoppani Glacier from Yendegaia fjord
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| Location | Tierra del Fuego (main island), Magallanes y la Antártica Chilena Region, Chile |
| Nearest city | Porvenir, Chile |
| Coordinates | 54°50′56″S 68°49′24″W / 54.8490°S 68.8233°WCoordinates: 54°50′56″S 68°49′24″W / 54.8490°S 68.8233°W |
| Area | 111,832 ha (276,340 acres) |
| Established | December 24, 2013 |
| Governing body | (CONAF) National Forest Corporation (Chile) |
Yendegaia National Park is located in Tierra del Fuego in the Magallanes y la Antártica Chilena Region of Chile and contains 150,612 ha (372,170 acres) of mountainous terrain and Valdivian temperate rain forest. It borders the Alberto de Agostini National Park and Tierra del Fuego National Park.
Yendegaia National Park is the result of public-private collaboration between the Government of Chile and the Yendegaia Foundation, a branch of the conservation project run by Douglas and Kris Tompkins. The park was first conceived in 2011 and was one of many projects created to celebrate the Bicentennial of Chile. It is made up of 111,832 ha (276,340 acres) of state owned land and 38,780 ha (95,800 acres) of the privately owned Estancia Yendegaia, which used to belong to the Tompkins’ foundation of the same name, that gave the lands to the State of Chile in 2013 to create the National Park. Yendegaia’s location on the border of Argentina’s Tierra del Fuego National Park has allowed the creation of an International Union for Conservation of Nature trans-border park or “Peace Park”.
The park is located south of the Azopardo River and stretches from the Darwin Range to the Argentine border and from the Beagle Channel to Fagnago Lake. Yendegaia creates a contiguous ecological corridor between Chile’s Alberto de Agostini National Park and Argentina’s Tierra del Fuego National Park. The landscape is composed of mountains, glaciers, lakes, canals, rivers and fjords.
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