Isla Magdalena Pinguinera (penguin Rookery)

The wealth of this island invites us to admire a show created by nature. This protected forest area was declared in August 1966 and reclassified National Park Natural Monument in 1982. Your objective is to protect avifauna, mainly composed of penguins and cormorants, gulls and other species, finding there one of the largest colonies of penguins Chile, whose population is estimated at 60,000 pairs of Magellanic Penguins (Sphenicus Magallanicus) which constitutes more than 95 percent of the bird population biomass.

Magdalena Island is located in the center of the Strait of Magellan, 35 km north of the city of Punta Arenas, and the tour begins plying the Straits legendary for 1 1/2 hours, the same route as the most daring navigators history, as Francis Drake, Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa, Ferdinand Magellan and Charles Darwin, among others. Once you reach the island, we can take a walk among hundreds of penguins will go our way, which also allows us to get to the lighthouse on the island, where we have a view overlooking the whole island and the surrounding areas. The residence time in the island is approximately one hour.