El Chaltén
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| Country | File:Flag of Argentina.svg Argentina |
| Province | File:Bandera de la Provincia de Santa Cruz.svg Santa Cruz |
| Department | Lago Argentino |
| Elevation | 397 m (1,302 ft) |
| Population (2022 Census)[1] | |
• Total | 1,861 |
| Time zone | UTC−3 (ART) |
El Chaltén is a small mountain village in Santa Cruz Province, Argentina. It is located on the riverside of Rio de las Vueltas, within the Los Glaciares National Park (section Reserva Nacional Zona Viedma) near the base of Cerro Torre and Cerro Fitz Roy spires, both popular for climbing. It is 220 kilometres (140 mi) north of El Calafate. It is also a popular base for hiking numerous trails, such as those to the base of surrounding peaks and glacial lakes, such as Laguna Torre and Laguna de los Tres (near the base of Fitz Roy).[2][3][4]
For those reasons, El Chaltén was named Argentina's Trekking Capital or Capital Nacional del Trekking. In 1985, Argentina and Chile had a border dispute over El Chaltén. There was no war, and El Chaltén was awarded to Argentina. Homes, government buildings, and flags of Argentina went up to mark the city settlement.[5]
The town is located at the edge of the 12,363 km2 (4,773 mi2) Southern Patagonian Ice Field and about 350 inhabitants live there throughout all the seasons of the year. Snow and ice mostly fence the town, and the homes are low structured with roads mostly made of rocks and dirt.[5]
Etymology
[edit | edit source]"Chaltén" is a Tehuelche word meaning "smoking mountain".[citation needed]
In 1877, Argentine explorer Francisco Moreno named mount Chaltén as mount Fitz Roy, in honour of Robert FitzRoy, captain during the Second voyage of HMS Beagle in the 1830s.[6] It has its own flag and coat of arms.
Tourism
[edit | edit source]The village has commercial camping grounds, mostly for backpackers.[7]
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Climate
[edit | edit source]El Chaltén has an unpredictable subpolar oceanic climate (Köppen Cfc) with subantarctic continental (Dfc) influences, with precipitation distributed on a large number of days despite not being nearly as heavy as in Chilean Patagonia; bad weather is exceedingly common. Summers experience long daylight hours, very windy weather, and cool temperatures, mostly below 18 °C (64.4 °F) during the day and below 5 °C (41 °F) during the night. Frost can and does occur in the summer too. Winters bring snow in moderate quantities, and average temperatures around 3 °C (37.4 °F) during the day and −4 °C (24.8 °F) during the night; however, the coldest nights are much colder than this. Spring and fall are variable, but generally cold as well.
| Climate data for El Chaltén (1941–1950) | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 30.3 (86.5) |
28.4 (83.1) |
25.6 (78.1) |
23.8 (74.8) |
20.4 (68.7) |
19.9 (67.8) |
17.5 (63.5) |
17.6 (63.7) |
19.5 (67.1) |
22.5 (72.5) |
25.2 (77.4) |
26.5 (79.7) |
30.3 (86.5) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 18.0 (64.4) |
17.0 (62.6) |
14.7 (58.5) |
11.7 (53.1) |
6.6 (43.9) |
4.4 (39.9) |
4.3 (39.7) |
5.0 (41.0) |
7.9 (46.2) |
11.8 (53.2) |
13.9 (57.0) |
16.2 (61.2) |
11.0 (51.8) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | 12.2 (54.0) |
11.4 (52.5) |
9.1 (48.4) |
6.4 (43.5) |
2.0 (35.6) |
0.0 (32.0) |
−0.1 (31.8) |
0.3 (32.5) |
2.5 (36.5) |
6.3 (43.3) |
8.4 (47.1) |
11.0 (51.8) |
5.8 (42.4) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | 7.8 (46.0) |
7.3 (45.1) |
4.6 (40.3) |
2.1 (35.8) |
−1.9 (28.6) |
−3.9 (25.0) |
−4.0 (24.8) |
−4.2 (24.4) |
−0.8 (30.6) |
2.6 (36.7) |
4.4 (39.9) |
7.1 (44.8) |
1.8 (35.2) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −1.5 (29.3) |
−2.5 (27.5) |
−3.3 (26.1) |
−13.0 (8.6) |
−14.5 (5.9) |
−20.2 (−4.4) |
−16.3 (2.7) |
−14.8 (5.4) |
−11.3 (11.7) |
−3.3 (26.1) |
−4.4 (24.1) |
−2.0 (28.4) |
−20.2 (−4.4) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 58 (2.3) |
62 (2.4) |
67 (2.6) |
92 (3.6) |
92 (3.6) |
90 (3.5) |
73 (2.9) |
67 (2.6) |
49 (1.9) |
63 (2.5) |
45 (1.8) |
50 (2.0) |
808 (31.8) |
| Source: Sistema de Clasificación Bioclimática Mundial[8] | |||||||||||||
Gallery
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References
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External links
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