Patagonia: Earth's Secret Paradise Filming Locations
Patagonia: Earth's Secret Paradise Filming Locations
Chile is a long, narrow country stretching along South America's western edge, with more than 6,000km of Pacific Ocean coastline. Santiago, its capital, sits in a valley surrounded by the Andes and Chilean Coast Range mountains. The city's palm-lined Plaza de Armas contains the neoclassical cathedral and the National History Museum. The massive Parque Metropolitano offers swimming pools, a botanical garden and zoo.
Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic, is a country in the southern half of South America. Argentina covers an area of 2,780,400 km², making it the second-largest country in South America after Brazil, the fourth-largest country in the Americas, and the eighth-largest country in the world.
Patagonia is a region encompassing the vast southernmost tip of South America, shared by Argentina and Chile, with the Andes Mountains as its dividing line. The Argentine side features arid steppes, grasslands and deserts, while the Chilean has glacial fjords and temperate rainforest. Argentina’s famed RN-40 highway passes the pinnacles of Monte Fitz Roy and Perito Moreno Glacier in Los Glaciares National Park.
Patagonia: Earth's Secret Paradise (2015)
Patagonia is one of the ultimate lands of mystery - the remote, windswept, tail end of South America - a place we may have heard of but know very little about. Narrated by Santiago Cabrera, this three-part series from the BBC's Natural History Unit discovers the surprising stories of the unusual wildlife and the people that survive in epic landscapes of volcanoes, glaciers, desert and treacherous oceans.
