Accommodation in Río Gallegos

Río Gallegos is the capital of the Patagonic Province of Santa Cruz and has a populations of approximately 90.000 inhabitants. There is a wide variety of hotels in Río Gallegos to choose from. Its climate is temperate (steppe and desert) with remarkable thermal amplitudes because it is located in the temperate-cold region of the country.

Río Gallegos is the Province seat of the three public powers (the Executive, the Legislative and the Judicial), an important commercial center and acts as distribution center from the tourist point of view. Río Gallegos is in the immensity of the Patagonian plateau, crossed by river valleys in a west-east direction. It is a centennial city on a low wet land, only 20 m above sea level, 2,636 km away from Buenos Aires City, by the Gallegos River, the southernmost river on continental Argentina.

This river starts at the confluence of the Penitente and Rubens Rivers, in Chile, and is a typical Patagonian river, middle sized, with banks alternating beaches and cliffs, with calm waters as well as rapid currents, mainly in its upper part where it presents many curves, rocky grounds and deep pools. The traveler may select from a wide variety of hotels in Río Gallegos.