Getting Ready for the Carretera Austral
The Carretera Austral (Ruta 7) stretches approximately 1,240 kilometers throughout Chilean Patagonia, from Puerto Montt in the north to Villa O’Higgins in the south. This highway, officially opened in 1988, was initiated in the 1970s by Augusto Pinochet during his military regime, claiming it makes no sense you need to travel through another country to…
