Frequently asked questions and Tips

Patagonia is huge and includes five provinces: Rio Negro, Neuquén, Chubut, Santa Cruz and Tierra del Fuego, and has a surface of 880.000 km², a third of the total surface of Argentina, which in turn is the eighth biggest country in the world.
The official currency of Argentina is the Peso.
The official language in the whole country is Spanish. In Patagonia there are small indigenous communities that speak mapuche language, and the official religion is Roman Catholic.
The climate is lukewarm cold, with very marked seasonal differences. There are big variations between the temperatures of the summer and those of the winter.
A characteristic of the climate is the wind that usually reaches intensities of around 100 km/h., mainly in the Central and Atlantic areas.
The quantity of inhabitants is approximately 1.500.000, 5% of the total of the country, with very low population's density (there are areas that have less than one inhabitant per square kilometer).
There are no security risks or threats to visitors' integrity.
Not all roads are asphalted, many are of rubble.
There are not endemic illnesses, therefore there is not any need of special vaccine to enter the country.
The consumption of seafood is usually seasonally restricted by the presence of the red tide, circumstance that is communicated through the media.
The typical meat of the region is the patagonian lamb.
It is very well-known the camaraderie of the people from the region.

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