Mirador Lago Sarmiento

Mirador Lago Sarmiento

Accessible by Car

Information

  • Operated: All year
  • Located: 9 route & Y-156 route via Cerro Castillo at 99km from Puerto Natales at 16km from Laguna Amarga entrance.
  • Difficulty: Easy
  • Experience Required: None

Description

From here, your eyes will record the first of the many picture postcards that you will treasure from Torres del Paine National Park.

Lake Sarmiento is 90 square kilometres in size and, unlike other lakes of glacial origin present in the park, this one owes its origin to the rains that gave it the intense blue colour that we now admire.

Sarmiento Lake and Laguna Amarga belong to the same basin hemmed in by glacial moraine. Its base comprises the rocks of the Cerro Toro Formation.

Mirador Laguna Amarga

Mirador Laguna Amarga

Accessible by Car

Information

  • Operated: All year
  • Located: 9 route & Y-156 route via Cerro Castillo at 110km from Puerto Natales at 5km from Laguna Amarga entrance.
  • Difficulty: Easy
  • Experience Required: None

Description

Laguna Amarga is a small lake, located outside the eastern limit of Torres del Paine National Park, about 5km from Lake Sarmiento. Both belong to the same basin closed in by glacial moraine. Its base comprises the rocks of the Cerro Toro Formation.

Named the “mirador”, which means viewpoint, and “laguna amarga”, which means bitter lake, the water is a bluish-green colour and got its name from the high pH in the water. And those white stones that crown its banks are stromatolites of calcium carbonate, rock formations present in few places in the world.

If it’s not cloudy you will be able to see the Torres of Torres del Paine from here.

Mirador Cascada Paine

Mirador Cascada Paine

Accessible by Car

Information

  • Operated: All year
  • Located: 9 route (Y-156 route, Y- 160 & Y166) via Cerro Castillo at 116km from Puerto Natales at 6km from Laguna Amarga entrance.
  • Difficulty: Easy
  • Experience Required: None

Description

Located on the Paine River, on the road that connects Laguna Amarga and Laguna Azul. The river that feeds the waterfall is born in Lake Dickson, which is fed by the Dickson Glacier.

If it’s not cloudy you will be able to see the Torres del Paine from here.