A virtual trip to the southern tip of South America, where Getty Images photographers recently captured scenes from across Patagonia—a beautiful, sparsely populated region that spans Argentina and Chile. The photographers Martin Bernetti, Mario Tama, Walter Diaz, and Juan Mabromata take us from the mountains to the coasts, including Torres del Paine National Park, Bernardo O'Higgins National Park, and Los Glaciares National Park.
A Trip to Patagonia
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A picture of the Cuernos del Paine mounts (Paine Horns, at left), part of the Paine small mountain group in the Torres del Paine National Park in the Chilean Patagonia, taken on February 26, 2016. #
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Visitors take in a view of a glacier cave in the Perito Moreno Glacier in Los Glaciares National Park, in southwest Santa Cruz Province, Argentina, on March 9, 2016. Perito Moreno is one of 48 glaciers fed by the Southern Patagonian Ice Field in the Andes mountain range. #
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A Franca Austral whale (Southern right whale) swims near Puerto Piramides at Peninsula Valdes, in the Patagonian province of Chubut, Argentina, on September 29, 2015. Thousands of Southern right whales come to Peninsula Valdes every year to complete their reproductive cycle. #
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Melting ice floats in front of the Northern wall of the Perito Moreno Glacier in Los Glaciares National Park on November 29, 2015, in Santa Cruz Province, Argentina. #
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