# El Chaltén

El Chaltén is a mountain town in the west of the province of Santa Cruz, Argentina. It is located in the south of the Andes Mountains, in the extreme southwest of the Argentine Patagonia, at the foot of Mount Fitz Roy -or Chaltén- and on the banks of the Río de las Vueltas. It is a small tourist village founded in the middle of Los Glaciares National Park.
In October 2014, El Chaltén obtained the second place in a ranking of the “best cities in the world to visit” of the Lonely Planet travel guide to be published in 2015. The town was only ahead of Washington D. C., being in first place in Argentina. The town owes its name to the nearby hill. It is often said that the name Chaltén comes from the Aonikenk or Tehuelche language and means “smoking mountain” or “blue mountain” Francisco Pascasio Moreno baptized it as Fitz Roy on March 2, 1877 in honor of the captain of the HMS Beagle, Robert Fitz Roy, who traveled the Santa Cruz River in 1834.

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