See Serrano Glacier from lodging at Hostaria Balmaceda, in Patagonia, Chile.

Visit Serrano Glacier during a stay at Hostaria Balmaceda, in Patagonia, Chile, South America. See Serrano Glacier on Last Hope Sound (Seno de Última Esperanza) via ferry from Puerto Natales. Última Esperanza Sound is an ocean inlet stretching from the mouth of Eberhard Fjord to Monte Balmaceda within Magallanes Basin. Filling a valley carved by ice age glaciers, this inlet is a tidewater river which drains an extensive basin including almost all the surface waters of Torres del Paine National Park through the Serrano River. The foot of South America is known as Patagonia, a name derived from coastal giants, Patagão or Patagoni, who were reported by Magellan's 1520s voyage circumnavigating the world and were actually Tehuelche native people who averaged 25 cm (or 10 inches) taller than the Spaniards.

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Visit Serrano Glacier during a stay at Hostaria Balmaceda, in Patagonia, Chile, South America. See Serrano Glacier on Last Hope Sound (Seno de Última Esperanza) via ferry from Puerto Natales. Última Esperanza Sound is an ocean inlet stretching from the mouth of Eberhard Fjord to Monte Balmaceda within Magallanes Basin. Filling a valley carved by ice age glaciers, this inlet is a tidewater river which drains an extensive basin including almost all the surface waters of Torres del Paine National Park through the Serrano River. The foot of South America is known as Patagonia, a name derived from coastal giants, Patagão or Patagoni, who were reported by Magellan's 1520s voyage circumnavigating the world and were actually Tehuelche native people who averaged 25 cm (or 10 inches) taller than the Spaniards.