TORO LAKE
Know Toro Lake
Toro Lake is another “crystalline” attraction of the region. With 202 km2 in surface and 320 meters of depth, the lake offers more than beautiful suroundings, exotic vegetation and native fauna. It has an irregular tophography, in which the peninsulas and inlets are the protagonists. The lake offers the possibility to walk around it if the weather conditions are the best. Toro Lake is the biggest in the region and part of it belongs to Torres del Paine National Park.
Destination's information:
Attractions: Flora and fauna. Interesting tophography.
Activities: Hiking, flora and fauna contemplation, photography.
Location: Magallanes
How to get there: Santiago-Punta Arenas: Airway.
Punta Arenas-Puerto Natales: Land route, by Route 9 north.
Puerto Natales-Toro Lake: Land route.
Santiago- Puerto Montt: Land route and airway.
Puerto Montt-Puerto Natales: Seaway.
When to go: All year long.
Weather: Trasandino weather, with ice in high places. The summer media temperature reaches 10,8°C –this season has the ideal weather conditions-.
Services: Housing, food, transportation, information center.
Surroundings: Las Montañas Channel, Castillo Hill, W Network: Torres del Paine Base- Valle del Frances-Grey Lake, network: Cordillera Paine Lake, Puerto Natales seashort, Dos Lagunas, Calvo Fjord, Bories cold-storage plant, Balmaceda Glaciar, Gulf of Almirante Montt, Balmaceda Lake, Azul Lagoon, Verde Lagoon, Paine Mountain, Cueva del Milodon Natural Monument, Bernardo O´Higgins National Park, Torres del Paine National Park, Antonio Varas Peninsula, Puerto Natales, Alacalufe National Reserve, Serrano River, Ultima Esperanza Inlet.