Tierra del Fuego

TIERRA DEL FUEGO - USHUAIA: capital of the ‘Tierra del Fuego, Antártida e Islas del Atlántico Sur’ province with 45000 inhabitants. Ushuaia was Founded October 12 1884 with the purpose of sitting down sovereignty on the southern area, and considered the most southern city in the world, it is located on the bay of the same name in the north coast of the Beagle channel and at the base of the last cord of the mountain range of the Andes. In the architecture of the city they combine the original housings made of wood and iron sheet with modern buildings lifted starting from the industrial development of the decade of 1980. From 1902 up to 1947 was headquarters of the famous Prison of Ushuaia where the most dangerous criminals were sent. In the decade of 1950 the city became an important naval base. Today in the port you can see ships of Navy, tourism cruises, cargo carriers and fishing ships that they discharge spider crabs. Ushuaia has a coastal avenue that travels its marine border where the Tourist Jetty of the city is; from there catamarans that travel the Beagle channel come out. The center of the commercial activity is the San Martín avenue, where numerous shops that sell cared articles at a very good price since they are tax-free. The growth of the tourist infrastructure is manifested in the presence of a five stars hotel, several of four, besides numerous hostels and lodgings. Ushuaia has in its surroundings many places of an incomparable beauty: the Lapataia bay, the Beagle channel with its islands, the Estancia (ranch) Harberton and the National Park Tierra del Fuego, to which you can arrive in a trip by a train of narrow trail that leaves from the station "Fin del Mundo" (end of the world).