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Six hundred hectares of forest are destroyed by fire in Los Alerces National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Patagonia, Argentina.
2024-01-28

A study in "Science Advances" reveals that Chilean Antarctic Institute scientists have discovered fossils from an unprecedented herbivorous hadrosaur called "Gonkoken nanoi", which inhabited Patagonia 72 million years ago.
2023-06-16

Two vessels deliver 25 survivors and one Peruvian corpse from Spanish ship MV "Dorneda" to ports in Argentina and Patagonia. One crewman remains missing after the fishing trawler sank off Argentina.
2018-07-16

Palaeontologists report that the remains of the largest dinosaur ever discovered have been unearthed in Patagonia, Argentina.
2014-05-17

Authorities in Chile close the Torres del Paine National Park, amid an ongoing forest fire in Patagonia.
2011-12-31

Tens of thousands of people protest in Santiago, Chile about plans to build two dams on wild rivers in southern Patagonia with an minority of people turning violent.
2011-05-20

Sol Líneas Aéreas Flight 5428 aircraft crashes in the southern Patagonia region of Argentina with all 22 people on board dying - icing of the propellor driven Saab 340 is cited as a possible cause.
2011-05-18

Tens of thousands take part in a church-sponsored demonstration against same-sex marriage outside Congress in Buenos Aires, as senators prepare to vote on a bill which would make Argentina the first South American country to legalize same-sex marriage.
2010-07-14

More than 300 southern right whales, mostly young calves, have been discovered dead off Argentina's Patagonian coast in the last five years.
2010-03-29