Bodies of Water of Chile

Lake Llanquihue, situated in the southern Los Lagos Region of Chile, is the largest and one of the best-known Chilean lakes. Osorno volcano stands on the southeastern shore of Lake Llanquihue and is one of the most active volcanoes of the southern Chilean Andes.

The Northern Patagonian Ice Field, located in southern Chile, is the smaller of two remnant parts in which the Patagonian Ice Sheet in the Andes Mountains of lower South America can be divided. It is wholly contained within the boundaries of Laguna San Rafael National Park.

The Southern Patagonian Ice Field, located between Chile and Argentina in the southern Patagonian Andes, is the world's second-largest contiguous extrapolar ice field. It is the larger of two remnant parts of the Patagonian Ice Sheet, which covered southern Chile during the last glacial period.

The Strait of Magellan is a sea route in southern Chile separating mainland South America and Tierra del Fuego archipelago to the south. Tierra del Fuego, shared by Chile and Argentina, is further separated in the south by the east-west Beagle Channel.

Vicente Pérez Rosales National Park, Chile's first, comprises some of the most sensational scenery in the Lakes Region: the emerald Todos Los Santos Lake, the thundering turquoise waters of the Petrohué Waterfalls and the imposing peaks of the area’s three main volcanoes (Osorno, Tronador and Puntiagudo).