To the south of the  Austral highway, in the Aysén Region, is the Chelenco Zone, located around the most  the country's largest lake, General Carrera Lake,  shared with Argentina and formerly known as Chelenco by the indigenous Tehuelches.

This zone keeps  perhaps one of the greatest attractions in southern Chile and many of them unknown. On the one hand it  They find the main archaeological sites of the Region, especially cave paintings that date back more than eight thousand years. Its imposing nature counts  with landmarks as important as the General Carrera Lake and its marble cathedrals, the Laguna San Rafael National Park with its dozens of glaciers (Northern Ice Field), the Cerro Castillo National Reserve and its trekking trails, or the areas that waste good vegetables and fruits, such as Chile Chico and Puerto Ingeniero Ibáñez, thanks to the microclimate generated by the great Lake Chelenco. Further south, the possibility of reaching such fascinating towns as Caleta Tortel, known for its wooden walkways.