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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