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Punta Arenas is the capital of the Magellan Region and has a population of about 135,000.
Due to its strategic location on the Magellan Strait, the city is an important harbour for
merchant ships to this day. For this reason, as well as the growth in sheep farming during the
19th century, Punta Arenas once enjoyed great wealth. Patagonia is the well-known name for
a little-known region at the southern “end of the world“, a place with its own unique magic.
One of the planet’s last regions to survive almost unchanged, it boasts cities originating from
the former wool boom, as well as glaciers and the summits of its national parks.
