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It is 131 km of asphalt. \u00a0A few years ago this stretch of the journey was traveled on National Route 258.<\/p>\nIt is 131 km of asphalt. \u00a0A few years ago this stretch of the journey was traveled on National Route 258.<\/p>\n
Ancient Route 40, passes for Pilcaniyeu, Las Bayas and El Mait\u00e9n. It is a desolate journey, passing through the tableland and the foothills. Using this route, in the long valley of El Mait\u00e9n, one can see the fields used to raise the sheep owned by the Italian Benneton corporation.<\/p>\n
Nowadays, in contrast, Route 40 borders the Lake Guillelmo, where there are wonderful campsites, free but without services. Later, the road runs along the valley, rounding its way around the peaks of the mountain crown and crossing the valleys where the waters of the rivers begin to make their way into the Pacific Ocean.<\/p>\n
The newly built road doesn\u2019t cross the legendary Canon of la Mosca, where the old road made a dangerous journey up and down the cliffs of the valley.<\/p>\n
After crossing the bridge above the river Villegas we enter the\u00a0National Park Nahuel Huapi<\/a>, a circular route along the riverbank of the River Manso, important because it carries the water of seven different lakes into the Pacific.<\/p>\n The view is stunning:<\/strong>\u00a0gazing towards the south we can see the peak of Mount Fortaleza, and towards the east the Serrucho mountain chain. After El Fovel, the road descends zigzagging, with very sharp curves. Drive Cautiously!<\/p>\n <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It is 131 km of asphalt. \u00a0A few years ago this stretch of the journey was traveled on National Route 258. Ancient Route 40, passes for Pilcaniyeu, Las Bayas and El Mait\u00e9n. It is a desolate journey, passing through the tableland and the foothills. Using this route, in the long valley of El Mait\u00e9n, one… Read on<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7266,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[61,119,117],"class_list":["post-1603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-patagonia-hoy","tag-ruta-40","tag-rutas-de-la-patagonia","tag-rutas-y-rincones-para-conocer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1603"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9744,"href":"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1603\/revisions\/9744"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Foyel](\"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/images\/elbolson_cerrofoyel.jpg\" "\\"Foyel")
Later we encounter the small town of El Foyel, a picturesque place for a brief stop before continuing the journey.<\/p>\n