National Park Los Glaciares is located along the border with Chile and covers an area of about 446 hectares. Los Glaciares is one of the largest environmental projects in Argentina. National Park, this area began in April 1945. And in 1981 it was included in the UNESCO list as a world heritage site.

In Spanish Los Glaciares means "glaciers". And indeed in this region of the southern hemisphere there is no mainland, and this kind of favorable conditions for the development of modern glaciation. More than forty percent of the Western area of Los Glaciares covered with eternal ice and snows of the Patagonian Andes. In a conservation area was discovered the largest outside of Antarctica ice cap consisting of 47 glaciers.

Perito Moreno is the most famous glacier in the Park Los Glaciares. Its height is about 50 m, length - 4 km of the glacier consists of 30,000 years. Perito Moreno is one of the few left in the world "living" glaciers. It is named after an Argentine scientist Francisco Moreno, translated from Spanish Perito Moreno means "Moreno Scientist". The dress itself is the third largest of the world's supply of fresh water. According to scientists, the glacier has a special ability to maintain a balance and not to succumb to global warming.

Perito Moreno is a unique glacier and because the arrays begin to form at an altitude of 1500 m above sea level, and after descending from the mountains and fall into the lake Argentina. Thousands of tourists flock to the national Park in order to see this spectacle. UNESCO declared the Perito Moreno glacier world heritage site.

Especially for tourists is minitrekking unique to the walls of the glacier. Visitors are issued special shoes for walking on ice. During the walk you can see a variety of ice formations – small lagoon, cracked, sewage pipes, as well as the place of disintegration of the glacier. In addition, a walk around the lake. The boat takes tourists to a distance of 200 m from the glacier, in order that they could appreciate the full beauty of Perito Moreno.

At the foot of the Andes, on the shores of the lake is the town of El Calafate. He's named after a Patagonian berries. From the locals cooked jam and various alcoholic liqueurs. The city is a transit point for tourists on the way to the glacier.

Due to the melting of glaciers within the Park, it formed a complex system of lakes. Altogether there are about one hundred, the most famous of which are the Lago Argentino and Viedma.

With regard to flora and fauna in the Park the main area is subantarctic Patagonian forests and the Patagonian steppe. In the forests of the protected area is home to over a hundred species of birds, most notable of which are the long-billed Rhea, Andean Condor, chernoray Chaffinch and clawed duck. Among animals can distinguish Andean deer, guanacos, llamas, condors, Patagonian hares, gray foxes, Cougars.

In the Park in the town of Puerta del Canyon, scientists have found the remains of settlements of ancient people, and in the bed of a local river that has long since dried up – the fossilized remains of dinosaurs.

Each year, the protected area of Los Glaciares is visited by thousands of tourists from around the world. The best time to experience the Park is between October to March, as in the southern hemisphere accounts for the summer.