What was the former name of Torres del Paine National Park?

Torres del Paine National Park is one of the largest national parks in Chile with a scenic bluish landscape that changes from glaciers and mountains to rivers and dense forests. The Torres del Paine are the distinctive three granite peaks of the Paine mountain range.

Earlier, it was known as Lago Gray National Tourism Park. In those days, the main activity of the area was livestock and tourism. On April 30, 1970, 11,000 new hectares of land was added to its protected terrain and was renamed as Torres del Paine National Park. The Park can be divided into four vegetation zones: Patagonian steppe, Pre-Andean shrubland, Magellanic subpolar forests and Andean Desert.

A large variety of animals and plants inhabit this territory because of the different biotic zones in the Park.

 

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