The Los Glaciares National Park is an area of exceptional natural beauty, with rugged, towering mountains and glacial lakes, including the enormous Lake Argentino. Dominated by rugged granite peaks, the landscape is carved by massive, ongoing glaciations, as much of the park is covered by glaciers of South America's largest ice field, feeding the huge mountain lakes of Viedma and Argentino.

Los Glaciares National Park was created in 1937 to protect the continental ice field and the thirteen largest glaciers, as they descend to the Atlantic Ocean over the Viedma and Agentino lakes. Against the backdrop of the majestic mountains grow the subantarctic or Magellanic forests, where the puma and the elusive Andean Cat roam, and the emblematic Andean Condor and black-chested buzzard eagles soar overhead.