Directorios

Enlace: http://www2.unesco.org/mab/br/brdir/directory/biores.asp?code=CHI+03&mode=all

Descripción: UNESCO, MAB Biosphere Reserves Directory.
«Torres del Paine lies between the Andes Mountains and the Patagonian Steppe in southern Chile giving on to the Atlantic coast. It is an area of great scenic beauty, with many ridges, crags, glaciers, waterfalls, rivers, lakes and lagoons. The Grey, Tyndall and Balmaceda Glaciers are remains of once much more extensive system. The tablelands and plains are part of the Patagonian-Fuegian steppe. The evergreen forests of Verano extend to the west as far as the foot of the Andes mountains, which wise up to a treeless alpine zone.»