Perito Moreno Travel Guide

Perito Moreno Glacier is the most famous glacier in Argentina's Los Glaciares National Park (World Heritage). This active glacier of ~250 sq km, with a 30 km x 5 km ice wall 60 m above the lake, periodic spectacular calving into Lago Argentino, and easy close viewing from walkways and boats, is Patagonia's most stunning natural wonder and one of the world's most accessible large glaciers. Perito Moreno is at the west end of Lago Argentino, the most famous of the park's 39 glaciers — 30 km long, 5 km wide, 60 m above the lake, ~250 sq km total. It is one of the few advancing glaciers — periodic calving creates a natural ice dam; when it collapses, massive ice thunders into the lake, Patagonia's most spectacular natural scene. Viewing walkways (Pasarelas) offer close views from multiple heights and angles. Boat trips approach the ice wall. Minitrekking lets adventurers strap on crampons and walk on the ice. Visiting to feel the grandeur of a blue-white ice wall and the awe of calving in Patagonia is a humbling natural wonder experience.