{"id":6265,"date":"2018-05-03T14:57:34","date_gmt":"2018-05-03T17:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/?p=6265"},"modified":"2018-05-03T14:58:23","modified_gmt":"2018-05-03T17:58:23","slug":"cabo-virgenes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/en\/cape-virgenes\/","title":{"rendered":"Cape Virgenes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/cabovirgenes.jpg\" alt=\"Penguins in Cape V\u00edrgenes\" width=\"240\" height=\"196\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" \/>The cape is at 133 km on a dirt road.<\/p>\n<p>In 1876, gold mixed with sand and from <b>1885 the gold fever turned Cape V\u00edrgenes into an urban nucleus but it did not take very long to decline;<br \/>\n<\/b>hardship<b> <\/b>and enormous difficulties facing the miners,<br \/>\nreturned this scenery to be again a part of the patagonian desert.<\/p>\n<p><b>Today, the cape is quite an interesting point, we recommend a visit between the months of October and April when it becomes the second largest penguin sanctuary in South America after Punta Tombo (Chubut). <\/b><\/p>\n<p><b style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/farocabovirgenes.jpg\" alt=\"V\u00edrgenes Cape Lighthouse\" width=\"161\" height=\"239\" align=\"left\" \/><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Each year some 80,000 Magellan penguin mates choose this place for nesting. There is a visitor center and a self-guided interpretation path.<\/p>\n<p>At the extreme south of the continent you will find the <b>Cape V\u00edrgenes Argentine Lighthouse<\/b> operating since 1904.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cape is at 133 km on a dirt road. In 1876, gold mixed with sand and from 1885 the gold fever turned Cape V\u00edrgenes into an urban nucleus but it did not take very long to decline; hardship and enormous difficulties facing the miners, returned this scenery to be again a part of the&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/en\/cape-virgenes\/\">Read on<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[181],"tags":[26],"class_list":{"0":"post-6265","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-rio-gallegos","7":"tag-excursiones"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6265","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6265"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6267,"href":"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6265\/revisions\/6267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}