The Patagonian plateau is mainly located in Argentina, with a small part in Chile, and consists of vast grasslands and deserts. Although it's dry, cold, and winds blowing all day long, this isolated plateau has an otherworldly appearance.
Patagonia has the longest mountain range in the world, the Andes. The mountains here have eccentric shapes, with towering peaks. The Andes Mountains on the Patagonian plateau run north and south, with Chile to the west and Argentina to the east. The most famous peaks here are Fitz Roy and Cerro Torre. Whenever we talk about these two tower peaks, people do not use beauty, but surprise!
The Patagonian Plateau is bordered by the Andes Mountains in the west, with snow peaks interlaced with volcanoes, glaciers interlaced with dense forests, and there are a large number of national parks and nature reserves. Glacier National Park in southwestern Santa Cruz province is often filled with thunderous rumblings, caused by the constant movement and fracture of ice sheets, combined with the action of howling mountain winds.
The ancient virgin forest is still preserved here, with tall and thick trees, luxuriant branches and leaves, vigorous and tall. In the Patagonian Plateau, there are also magnificent natural landscapes such as the Blanca Marsh Nature Reserve in Neuquen Province, Pereto Moreno National Park in Santa Cruz Province, and Tierra del Fuego National Park Reserve. There are also precious animals such as vicuña, vultures, jaguars, sea lions, walruses and penguins in the reserve.
The surface of the Patagonia Plateau is a shield area of widely exposed ancient granite, crystalline slate, gneiss, banyan and other crystalline rock series, and other parts are overlaid with Mesozoic and Cenozoic sedimentary rock series. Tertiary basalt is still distributed in some areas.
The Patagonian Plateau is the only temperate desert and semi-desert area on the east coast of the world's mid-latitude continents, and has unique significance in the world. "National Geographic" magazine listed it as one of the 50 places to visit in life. UNESCO awarded it the title of "World Biosphere Reserve". "Lonely Planet" also rated it as the most beautiful wilderness in the world. Snow-capped mountains, glaciers, lakes, rivers, endless forests, and wild animals roaming freely. It is the most popular place in the whole of Southern Patagonia, and possibly even the best national park on our planet.
Patagonia is like a sleeping giant, forgotten by the world and almost forgotten by its own people, but it is deeply imprinted in the memory of some people and lingers.
