Useful Information
How to get there
From Rio Gallegos (Province of Santa Cruz)
Paved route by which you must travel from Rio Gallegos to El Calafate. Take the National Route 3, Provincial Route 5, National Route 40 and finally Provincial Route number 11.
From San Martin de los Andes (Neuquén Province):
RN 234, RN 40, RN 237, RN 258, RN 40, RP 20 (Chubut), RN 26, RN 3 and RN 40
From San Carlos de Bariloche (Province of Rio Negro):
RN 258, RN 40, RP 20 (Chubut), RN 26, RN 3 and RN 40
From Esquel (Chubut Province):
RN 259, RN 40, RP 20 (Chubut), RN 26, RN 3 and RN 40
From the Province of Buenos Aires:
RN 3, PR 51 (Buenos Aires), RN 3 and RN 40
From the Provinces of Salta, Jujuy, Tucuman and Santiago del Estero and Córdoba:
RN 9, RN 36, RN 8, RN 35, RN 3 and RN 40
From the provinces of Formosa, Chaco and Santa Fe:
RN 11, RP 1 (Santa Fé and Buenos Aires), RN 188, RP 65 (Buenos Aires), RN 33, RN 3 and RN 40
From the provinces of Misiones, Corrientes and Entre Rios:
RN 12, RN 9, PR 6 (Buenos Aires), RN 3, RN 51, RN 3 and RN 40
From the Provinces of Catamarca and La Rioja:
RN 38, RN 60, RN 9, RN 36, RN 8, RN 35, RN 154, RN 22, RN 251, RN 3 and RN 40
From the Province of San Juan:
RN 20, RN 147, RN 7, RN 35, RN 154, RN 22, RN 25, RN 3 and RN 40
From the Provinces of Mendoza and San Luis:
RN 7, RN 35, RN 154, RN 22, RN 251, RN 3 and RN 40
From the province of La Pampa:
RN 35, RN 154, RN 22, RN 251, RN 3 and RN 40
Border crossings to Chile:
Paso Cancha Carrera
This path is only enabled in the festive period (December to March) and allows access from El Calafate, traveling 286 kilometers along the National Route N º 40, then crossing the customs to the area of Cerro Castillo, addressing to the south it will take you to Puerto Natales in Chile.
Paso los Baguales or Paso Oriental
This is a dirt road, which has to be crossed by walk or horse-riding.
Located 1.287 meters above sea level, this path is only accessible on foot or on horseback, and only in summer season because of its height, that is to say the snow.
How to get there by bus?
By Bus from Rio Gallegos, the journey lasts four hours or from the city of Puerto Natales, Chile, just five hours.
How to get on an airplane?
By plane directly to El Calafate International Airport from major cities in the country. The only airline that has regular flights is Aerolineas Argentinas, several days a week.
Access to Perito Moreno from El Calafate
Perito Moreno Glacier is located opposite to the Magallanes Peninsula, about 80 kilometers from El Calafate village. Spread over the South Branch of Lago Argentino, to reach it must take the 11 t Provincial Route that connects the town to Punta Bandera, and then a few kilometers down the road to the Magallanes Peninsula, where paths are placed against the catwalk glacier. It has front five kilometers long and sixty feet high, and it is considered one of the most imposing glaciers in the world.
Access to El Chatén from El Calafate
It can only be reached by car or bus along Provincial Route 11, and continuing along the National Route 40 and Provincial Route number 23, which ends in Lago del Desierto. The trip takes four hours along a path that is mostly gravel, with an obligatory stop at the middle of the way at La Leona (at the shore of the river of the same name) or the Luz Divina stay.
Distances from El Calafate to:
• Buenos Aires: 2,727 Km
• Bariloche: 1,403 Km
• Comandante Piedrabuena: 287 Km
• Comodoro Rivadavia: 959 Km
• Esquel: 1,108 Km
• Gobernador Gregores: 335 Km
• Puerto Madryn: 1,388 Km
• Puerto Natales: 362 Km
• Punta Arenas: 605 Km
• Porvenir: 561 Km
• Rawson: 1,345 Km
• RÃo Gallegos: 298 Km
• RÃo Grande: 645 Km
• San Julián: 406 Km
• Santa Cruz: 306 Km
• Trelew: 1,326 Km
• Ushuaia: 863 Km
• Viedma: 1,785 Km
