Patagonia, Chile - wide coverage and high-resolution satellite image

In Patagonia, the vastness of the Earth is fully revealed when viewed from space.

Welcome above Patagonia, the vast, wind-swept region spanning southern Argentina and Chile, where the Andes give way to glaciers, steppe and some of the last great wildernesses on Earth.

Its landscapes are shaped by the Southern Patagonian Ice Field, one of the largest reserves of fresh water outside the polar caps, and by windswept grasslands home to guanacos, condors and pumas. Long inhabited by the Tehuelche people, Patagonia later became a frontier for 16th-century navigators, who gave the region its name. Sparsely populated and largely undeveloped even today, it remains one of the planet's most intact wildernesses.