This
is the country’s first maritime zone ever established
as a protected area in it’s history.
Francisco Coloane Marine Park” is located in a sea and
land extension of 67 thousand hectares surrounding the Carlos
III Island, at the Strait of Magellan, in Chile’s XII
Region.
The Park’s principal assets to become under the Jerónimo
Channel, The Tortuoso Passage, Ruppert Islet, Barbara Channel,
Fortescue and Cordes Bays an the Santa Ines Island and it’s
Glacier.
The totality of the protected area posses a vast biological
diversity, as well as uniqueness, due in part, to the intermingling
of the two adjacent ocean waters, Pacific and Atalantic, it’s
very strong winds, the massive presence of Glaciers and it’s
dismembered coastline.
One of subjects that conform the Park’s importance is
the fact that it includes a biological corridor, habitat to
the humpback whale (and occasionally to the minke whale) in
it’s seasonal feeding patterns.
The zone includes as well large sea lion’s colonies and
quite important nesting areas for the Magellan penguin.
The Park’s protected extension encompasses sea water portions,
sea bottom, coastal rocks, beaches and terrains pertaining to
State land. is participating in the writing of the Park’s
normative and guidelines in collaboration with The Ministry
of National Patrimony, The National Environment Agency, The
National Forest Agency, the National Fisheries Service, the
regional XII Region Government and the World Environmental Fund.
CHILE’S FIRST MARITIME PARK HAS
BEEN NAMED AFTER FRANCISCO COLOANE THE RECENTLY DECEASED GREAT CHILEAN
NOVELIST BORN, RAISED AND PERMANENTLY INSPIRED IN THE AUSTRAL MARITIME
THEMATIC. THE PARK WAS DECLARED AND CHRISTENED UNDER HIS NAME ON AUGUST
THE 5°, 2003 IN THE WRITER’S ¨FIRST ANNIVERSARY OF HIS
DEATH.
