Swim across the Beagle Channel

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Cruce a Nado del Canal Beagle (or the Swim across the Beagle Channel or Cruce a Nado del Canal Beagle Argentina-Chile in Spanish) is an open water swimming event organized by Nadando Argentina and Matias Ola in Argentina.

Beagle Channel

The Beagle Channel is a strait sea passage located at the southern tip of South America. It leading to the starting point of this crossing to Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego in Argentina, known as the End of the World. The channel forms the international border between Argentina and Chile. The average width of the Beagle Channel is a little more than 2 nautical miles. It has two maximum narrows: in the east the Mackinlay passage of 1.5 km and the western tip divide the area where it is only 750 meters wide.

Nadando Argentina Events

  • Swim across the Beagle Channel (Cruce a Nado del Canal Beagle Argentina-Chile)
    • The Beagle Channel is a strait sea passage located at the southern tip of South America. It leading to the starting point of this crossing to Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego in Argentina, known as the End of the World. The channel forms the international border between Argentina and Chile. The average width of the Beagle Channel is a little more than 2 nautical miles. It has two maximum narrows: in the east the Mackinlay passage of 1.5 km and the western tip divide the area where it is only 750 meters wide.
  • Swim Camp Laguna del Inca Argentina-Chile (Swimming Camp Laguna del Inca Argentina-Chile)
    • Laguna del Inca is the name given to a lagoon at 3,000 meters above sea level in the Andes Portillo area, located in the province of Los Andes, Region of Valparaiso, Chile. According to an Inca legend, in this lagoon Illi Yupanqui cried when the Inca princess Kora-lle died in an accident while she was fulfilling a tradition for marriage. There was left the body of the princess. It is said that at that time the lagoon turned emerald, tinted of the color of the eyes that the son of the Sun could no longer wake up. It is also said that in certain winter nights you can still hear the cries of the Inca.
  • Destination 3 Glacier (Experiencia 3 Glaciares Argentinos)
    • Upsala Glacier, along with the Perito Moreno Glacier, Glacier is the most visited location in the region where big drifting icebergs that detached from the front of the glacier are pushed by the wind along the North Arm and after Lake Argentino, to anchor at the eastern end of this, where wind, sun and rain melt them.

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