Cabo de Hornos National Park

The Cape Horn National Park (Spanish: Parque Nacional Cabo de Hornos ) founded in 1945, is a 631 km ² Chilean nature reserve on the extreme southern tip of South America. It is managed by the Chilean Corporación Nacional Forestal Forestry Authority ( CONAF ).

The area of the national park includes the entire southern uninhabited archipelago of Tierra del Fuego archipelago, which includes the two closely adjacent island groups Wollaston Islands and Hermite Islands. On the Isla Hornos is Cape Horn.

The landscape of the park is characterized by its rocky islands, which almost always troubled sea and the very rough, already influenced by the Antarctic climate.

For plants include tree stands with Magellan southern beech, the Canelo tree ( Drimys winteri ), ( Maytenus magellanica ) and Antarctic Beech bill. On the coast, sea leopard, Mane Seal, and Southern elephant can be observed. In the associated protected marine area several dolphin species such as come White-bellied dolphin and Peale 's dolphin before.

The National Park since 2005, together with the National Park Alberto de Agostini also a biosphere reserve by UNESCO.