With more than 75.000 habitants, it is the capital of the province of Santa Cruz and also the distribution center of tourism activities of the zone.
The offering of the city is conformed by museums, craft samples, artistic expositions and a water frosts estuary that can be crossed along through a coastal boat.
Outside the urban zone you can enjoy the hospitality of the tourist stays, a travelling through the volcanic landscape of the Laguna Azul that is a crater of a volcano that owes its name to the intense coloring of its deep water.
It is only 60 kilometers from Río Gallegos.
Another place of privilege is the Reserva Faunística Cabo Vírgenes, one of the greater pingüineras of South America that harbors, from October to April, more than 150.000 pingüinos magallánicos. It is at 134 kilometers from the south of Río Gallegos. It is all day long excursion that allows you to enjoy itself the avistaje of pingüinos novices and adults in its natural habitat. The place has also a center of visitors and a path of interpretation selfguided.
The Isla Deseada, located in the estuary of the Gallegos estuary, is characterized for its various marine fauna. There it is possible to observe pingüinos magallánicos, southern seagulls and cooks, skúas, imperial cormoranes, bandurrias, petreles and albatross in their natural habitats.
