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One of the cities and tourist centre the most important of Argentina Bariloche in the heart of Patagonia and the most important city of the Río Negro province. It is situated in 770 metres above the sea level and in 1650 km from Buenos Aires. It offers excellent conveniences and services to more than 650.000 guests every year.

San Carlos of Bariloche, city of 80 000 inhabitants, is situated on the south bank of the lake Nahuel Huapi in the national park of the same name.
It is a mountain station, famous for the colour of lake waters and the going downhill stars every winter its snowy hillsides.

The National park Nahuel Huapi is the first Argentine national park, lakes and mountains are the main characteristics.

These mountains offer varied ski tracks which goes from the beginner to the expert.
Shops abound in sports material of the last shout. You will be able to equip yourselves "from head to feet" if you wish to.

Bariloche, it is "Switzerland" of Argentina, on one hand because of its previous history (immigration of the Swiss, Germans and Austrians) on the other hand by its physical and geographic aspect; Small wooden chalets at the edge of lakes, close to snowing summits where you'll ski !! amazing.......

And moreover, Bariloche is the centre of chocolate production, ......it reminds us our neighbours of the Alps (with something different, you are in Argentina do not forget it)
For the amateurs of nice evenings, you will find numerous bars and discotheques there.

What to see

The Museum of Patagonia with its collection of awkward animals, recollections of the expeditions of pacification (in front of local Indians), geologic samples, objects of the Indian groups of the region (Vuriloche, Poya, Pampa, Huiliche, Puelche, Tehuelche, Fuegien, Pehuenche).

From Bariloche:
You can discover the peninsula Llao llao, the Cerro Lopez and its panorama on the lake Nahuel Huapi and Moreno, and the Cerro Campanario which we climb in chairlift to discover a tremendous panorama on Andes summits of the surroundings.
The road of 7 lakes between El Portezuelo and Villa Angostura, forests of Coihues ( local beech) and Patagonian landscapes.
Isla Victoria, a reserve of 3700 hectares on the lake of Nahuel Huapi, forested and animal reserve (red deer)
The crossing of lakes towards Chile:
From Bariloche can be made the circuit of the " crossing of lakes " alternation of routes by the road and crossings by boats which allows to join the lake Todos los santos and the city of Puerto Varas or Puerto Montt in Chile.
The landscapes, typical of Andes Patagonia are really beautiful.

THE EXPLORATORY EXPEDITIONS
At this end of XV ° century, before the roundness was "accepted" by the religious authorities, we find to the rank of the navigators, the geographers and the other cosmographes a lot of persuaded men that the world is not a flat disc, below whom the other men would walk upside down.
So, convinced as he can reach India by making road towards Ponant, Colombus will come to stumble over a string of islands (current the Bahamas Islands). The earth which the navigator accosted in 1492 was not that of India, but that of new continent: America. Colombus will not thus have opened a new spice route; on the other hand, he offers to the Spanish crown a continent, men, wealth who will be conquered, subjected and exhausted in some decades only.
In 1494, both Iberian realms have appeal to the arbitrage of the Pope to settle the commercial and territorial conflicts which set them. The Treaty of Tordesillas divides the world into two, by an imaginary line situated in 370 leagues on the West Cape Verde Islands. Lands discovered east of this line will return to Portugal, those were situated on the West in Spain.
Some years later, in 1497, the navigator Vasco de Gama doubles the current Cap of Good Hope, crosses Indian Ocean and reaches India. For some years, Portugal will hold the monopoly of the maritime business with India.
On September 20th, 1513, Spanish Vasco Nuñez de Balboa discovers the Sea of the South (Pacific Ocean) having crossed on foot the isthmus of Darién (current Panama). From there to think that beyond this ocean, in some hundreds miles of the American coasts, is Moluques, these famous islands with renown spices, there is only a step, that Ferdinand de Magellan, small Portuguese local country squire, crossed easily. Little worried of opening a spice route by the West, Portugal abandons Magellan and its project to Spain. Charles the Fifth thus confides to the Portuguese renegade the command of a fleet of five vessels...

... On September 20th, 1519, the squadron sails of San Lucar, near Cadix. On October 21st of the next year, it undertakes in what seems to be a pass; informed readings, sailors' stories, confidences of cosmographes, it seems that Magellan suspected the existence of such a passage. It is about the Strait of the All Saints' Day, today the Strait of Magellan, which connects the Atlantic Oceans and the Pacific. Port, on the coast of Terra Australis Incognita, rise here and there columns of smoke; this earth will be Tierra de Humos, renamed Tierra del Fuego by Charles the Fifth. Three years after leaving Spain, having crossed the Pacific, had reached islands of spices and having by-passed Africa, so making the first one circumnavigation of the History, Victoria, only surviving vessel of the fleet, gets back to its port of registry without Magellan, killed on an island close to Moluques.
During several decades, the road discovered by Magellan will be borrowed only by privateers, English for the greater part. They skimmed the Pacific coast to Mexico, plundering in a systematic way places and Spanish galleons. In 1578, during one of these campaigns, Francis Drake's vessel is pushed away beyond 56 ° south parallel by one of these tremendous southern storms. He is credibly the first navigator to have doubled current Cape Horn. The discovery of this new road free of the Spanish influence, will be considered secret by Elizabeth I of England. So, in 1616, Schouten will appropriate the merit to have discovered this rocky cape, that he believed to be a cap and that he will name Cap Hoorn, in homage to the Dutch city where he was born.
Meanwhile, Spain will have in vain tried to assert its sovereign power on the Strait of Magellan. In 1580, the Captain General Sarmiento de Gamboa takes the head of the vastest company of colonization. It is a question of implanting a permanent colony in the strategic places of the strait; in the oriental entrance will be set up "Nombre de Jesus" and in the crossroads of the strait, in the South of the current peninsula of Brunswick, will be built "Ciudad del Rey Felipe". Disappeared into sea, even before having reached the strait, harassed by Indian, decimated by the mutinies, eaten away by the famine and mined by an inhospitable climate, some thousands of men and 25 vessels of the expedition will end there.
Some times later, the English privateer Thomas Cavendish arrived in the bay of San Juán, in front of Ciudad del Rey Felipe. The sinister spectacle which offers itself in his eyes will make him rename the place Port Famine (Puerto del Hambre).

Charles Darwin, 1809-1882 THE SCIENTIFIC EXPEDITIONS
Will follow in XVII ° and XIX ° centuries expeditions of scientific investigation, those of Louis Antoine de Bougainville (on 1764 and 1766-1768), James Cook (on 1768-1771 and 1775), Jules Dumont d' Urville ( 1837-1840 ), the most known being the one that will make the young person Charles Darwin aboard the HMS Beagle between 1832 and 1834....

...Commanded by Fitz Roy, "Beagle" had among others missions the hydro statement of the coasts of Patagonia... Beagle left its name with the canal which lines the south coast of Tierra del Fuego, Fitz Roy left its name with one of the Andes summits the most known, as for Darwin, he left his name with a theory which let him say, expressing himself about Indian met in the canals of Patagonia: " I did not imagine how much is enormous the difference which separates the wild man of the civilized man, the difference certainly bigger than the one who exists between the wild animal and the pet ..... "