On route 7 into the heart of Patagonia | DW Documentary
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 มิ.ย. 2019
- A trip along Chile’s National Route 7, the Carretera Austral, takes us into the stunning wilderness of Patagonia - a place that many German emigrants chose as their new home almost a century ago.
The Carretera Austral is straddled by mountain ranges, primeval forests, fjords, volcanoes and a huge ice field. It has taken decades to carve its way through the almost impassable terrain - even now a lot of traffic is forced to take a detour across the border into Argentina. The military dictator Augusto Pinochet made the construction of the road a national priority in the 1970s, sending thousands of soldiers to the region to work under the most adverse conditions. One of the last surviving members of Pinochet's junta, former military police chief Rodolfo Stange, talks about the road’s strategic importance for the regime.
German marine biologist Vreni Häussermann tells us about a catastrophe in one of the Patagonian fjords - an event that underlines how economic expansion along the route has adversely affected the natural environment in southern Chile. On our journey we meet descendants of German emigrants who found a new home in Patagonia’s remote vastness after the First World War. An insight into the past and present of this unique region.
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Oh my goodness, thank you for allowing us, "armchair travellers", to see amazing places we otherwise never would have. Bravo, Chilean people, too, building up your country with pride and perseverance.
Helps the many "wheelchair watchers", also.
I couldn't agree more with the comments of NotAllislost. A documentary prepared with much sensitivity.
good work
John Irby I’ve been disabled since the 80’s and was JUST thinking the same thing!
My husband and I hosted an exchange student from Chile in the 90’s. We keep in touch regularly.
26:04 🇨🇱
the blessing of the internet. i just took a trip to chile without leaving my house. thanks DW for this documentary.
Isn't that the TRUTH!
@The Guru of Kang you can say that again!
i've since 'visited' iran by train and sri lanka by train. marvelous places to visit.
#metoo
@@fawziaabdurrahman2251 And so nice close to the kitchen.... for the necessary refreshments during our far travels....... Love from the Netherlands..
I live in central Chile (Valpraiso) and i can tell you 99% of Chileans have never been this far south,
Will visit Chile Patagonia Soon.
love from 🇮🇳🚩
Watching documentaries like this one is a healthiest addiction.
it would be extremely healthy to be outdoors in that wilderness!
@Ehab Mahmoud Just google any country or subject followed by "documentary " and something usually comes up. BLESS YOU from USA.
@@aaronm97oh10 totally agree
true... especially in a semi-lockdown situation as of now in Singapore 😥
True
Having lived in Chile for a decade and having travelled around Patagonia countless times in that period, I have to say that it is the most beautiful, untouched, and wild places I have been to. There is absolutely nothing like it. My commendations to DW for creating this authentic, near-identical representation of the Patagonian experience. It brought a tear to my eye.
Why did you leave?
To the Chilean and Argentine people, please keep and preserve this beauty of nature as long as you can. It is so beautiful.
They must reserve it and protect it by all means possible
@@inezamy9523 lol I laugh
Hello 👋! Congratulations ! We in Iran (middle east )don’t have such a good nature 😐please keep it safe 🙏🏻🌴🔥
We will 👍🏻
No worries
While you enjoy the fruits of capitalism
Beautiful Patagonia. Love from India❤❤❤
Chilean Patagonia is one of the most beautiful places in the world, it reminds me of Norway. Many fjords, mountains, lakes, rivers, forests, glaciers. Marvelous. The Argentine part is so dry and arid that it looks like a desert, a steppe, I didn't like it at all. I know both countries
Chile is a very thin country but its geography is far more interesting than Argentina. Vast swaths of Argentina are flat and uninspiring.
Who is watching Chilean Patagonia in 2023 and enjoying it 4 years later ❤
Thank you for showing us where we might never go!
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One of the most beautiful countries on the planet. Chile!!!! Love from India!
You give me Chills, Chile. Truly one of the most Beautiful Country in the world. I wish I could go there one day.
U are welcome 🤭
I am determined to visit Patagonia 🥰 from Zimbabwe... I am falling in love with Chile. I like adventurism
If you are black do not bother, Chileans and especially Patagonians are very racist.
@@dasbose4962 That's a lie, all the people who come to know our country are welcome
@@dasbose4962 what a Bose comment from a very Bose person ! you better verschwinder !
Im from down here, you are welcome my friend!!! I hope you have a good trip if you come :D
@@dasbose4962 In Chile we have a lot of different people, go to talk shit to another place
Chile is the best country ever. Beautiful, developed, with the best people. I doubt that anyone wouldn't want to live there. Greetings from chile jaja
Jajajajajaaja el ql xd
@@666midnightshadow a tiempo rey
ajjajsajs pero wn
The ranger is really happy. He clearly loves his job.
One of the best documentary from DW... The beauty is mesmerizing
Yeah its a badass job
I'm addicted to DW documentaries..thank you to the entire team for taking us to chile for free.
Beautiful my country, southern Chile is wonderful.
I just took a trip to Chile at the comfort of my room thank you DW really appreciated
Which part of Chile are you from?
Yes...indeed it is. Love from the UK.
@@pfanasia 95% chance she’s from Santiago or surrounding
Ihve never seen a beautiful country like chile .love from India
These documentaries are awesome I'm telling u that I'm living in Jamaica never been in a aeroplane but thanks to you tube I've travelled to far off places...nuff respect
I am living here. It’s a great place . And you believe visit Patagonia . 😁! Con salud de Chile.
Southern Chile is very similar to Norway. Forests, lakes, rivers, great snowfalls and many fjords
Yeah, im pretty sure the Vikings wouldn't noticed the difference.
Way bigger though.
Also reminds me of New Zealand landscape
@@MauroRincon way smaller you mean.
@@dylanhoward7668 Chile is longer than Europe from top to bottom, so yeah, bigger.
I wish I had the money to open a course named" How documentaries should be made" and pay the DW Documentaries workers to teach other media companies about it . Amazing as always!!!!
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Thanks for this! I met a woman from Colorado who had gone with a friend and two horses to the south of Chilean Patagonia. They spent two years slowly making their way north. They'd trade horses as they went. She said that she'd meet families who had not had contact with others for a year or two. This gives me even more appreciation for what she had accomplished... Now I wish I'd asked her about crossing the fjords.
This reminded me a lot of my own country of Norway, not just because of the fjords, but in general, as the pilot in the end of the documentary describes as a "raw beauty". Everything, from the mountains, to the green waters created by glacier melting, was just like all my travels around the west coast here as a child, only I have to say it have even more natural beauty with the trees and the slightly tropical look of the vegetation, similar to how in the depths of some fjords here there's huge groves of fruit trees that can grow because of the rich and fertile waters of the Gulf Stream that flow here. It's really a place I would feel at home at, if I ever visited. I can't say I agree that building a road is such a life-important thing. I'd have peace inside if I went to my grave knowing that there's still places like Patagonia in the world, where few people, because of the lack of roads, come. Thanks for sharing all the beauty. Specially the volcanic eruption with the lightning storm inside was powerful.
Thanks for watching and sharing your thoughts!
Just to clear: nothing about Patagonia is tropical. Since it does have glaciers, it’s colder than most European countries honestly.
@Elvenkind: I agree that it is a lot like Norway where I was born and raised. I believe it is colder than much of Norway, though I have never been to Patagonia myself. Norway has the Gulf Stream to warm it up; as far as I know there is nothing similar for Patagonia. Breathtaking nature, hardy residents so far south in Chile.
Man, I lived in Norway for one year. Visiting the North, starting from Bodo is magic. Emptiness and overwhelming beauty. Lofoten is a gem. It is rather difficult to explain it to people who didn't experience it. My dream is to visit it again and drive there. Take the ferry, encounter whales... It is all magical... Like a fairy tale...
@@nicoz4122 I'm half "northerner" myself, with my mother from Lofoten, and agree that it can all become overwhelming, words does not give the beauty justice, not even by calling it a fairy tale. I hope too you get to visit again. It's a shame it's all so expensive.
I've been down there, loved every second, once I am done exploring USA and Canada with my van I am going to take it all the way down there and back for a long amazing road trip.
Can I come with you.
@boo hoo why does he need to post videos of it?
How
@@francislapointe8316 you can ferry the car from Colon, Panama to Cartagena, Colombia
@@TenThumbsProductions thank you
La carretera austral la mas bella del mundo.unica.
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I must admit that I, an Asian, am too far removed from this part of the world, but always admired it for its raw untamed and as yet, untrammeled natural beauty. May the people and nature flourish and prosper here.Loved your story telling style of commentary.Thank you
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The look in Ranger Sergio's eyes and the smile on his face as he walks through Pumalín Park discussing the trees/wildlife (12:07-13:46) put a smile on my face. You can tell he really loves he loves what he does and is committed to the forest!
Extremely jealous... *I honestly never expected this kind of scenery. It reminds me so much of Northern Europe, or some places in Finland and Northern Finnish Lapland where I went too. It’s so beautiful and amazing.*
- regards from 🇵🇭
Better than hot humid sewege dump manila for sure..
@@mtksbctk but if u explore the provinces of the Philippines u will be amaze the secret of beauty lies in it.
@@mtksbctk you’ve never been to any major city in Latam I guess lol
Wow! The beauty of southern Chile is immense 😍 I'm from the Philippines and I do hope that someday I can visit the wonderful Patagonia and the amazing Chile. ❤️💚💙
You will be very welcome to do so hispanic brother.
"I love Chile too as a whole nation tired already of the too much hot and humid weather from the tropical nation of Philippines .?!"
@@paolosantiago3163 have you been to Chile before? If in case you’ll be returning, I would highly nominate myself to be your chaperone. Lol
I am surprised that DW would interview Rodolfo Stange in such flatering terms. Of course he denies any involvment but the reality is that the junta, of which he was a key member, supervised over 2,000 murders, 27,000 persons tortured and over 200,000 exiled. Not a record to forget.
I agree about the German mr.strange. and a person would not achieve this kind of place in the killer Pinochet junta without doing the necessary things to achieve it.....like torture and murder....atta boy!
As a chilean, watching that part was sort of uncomfortable. Chile is politically divided (like many countries), but in our case is because of a dictatorship that ended not that long ago.
DW plays stupid here. Documenting Chilean history while not researching.
who cares lol.
Wonderful documentary, an educational view of the lovely country of Chile. Thank you for sharing!
Beautiful video. I hired a pick up truck and drove from Santiago all the way down the Carretera Austral a few years ago. It is a long way but incredibly beautiful scenery. Crossed over to Argentina and drove up north. The contrast between the dry Argentinian Patagonia and wet Chilean side is interesting. Both are stunning. It is a wonderful part of the world.
It was the most magical trip of my life. It was 2008 but everything looks the same.
I knew about a country called Chile in South America but never knew about its beauty until now. I knew about a brand called Patagonia but never knew its actually a geographical region. Thank you DW, it is now on my bucket list!
Did you actually understand the point of the post? It's human exploitation that is causing the horror which is the premise of this story. But you are both promoting some brand product; whilst showing a clear ignorance of geography, and then promoting the idea of tourism in the area.
DW did not tell you to go there. It's making people aware of the problems we are causing to that region and the planet as a whole.
@@bluegold21🙄
This is one the most memorable YT videos I have ever seen. I love the people featured and the most beautiful sceneries. Thanks DW!
I am a big fan of DW documentaries. Please keep creating these amazing documentaries.
I did this route via Motorcycle with my brothr in 2019- It was amazing! This was a great way to see some of the same places.
Ojalá Algún día me toque conocer Chile, la Patagonia wow Increible saludos desde Los Angeles California, soy de México... Inpresionante...
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Gracias a DW para mostrarnos este hermoso lugar. Que hermosa es Patagonia. Parece un paraíso. Me gustaría visitar Chile. Saludos desde India. 🙏
Excellent. This is the best description of this part of Chile that I have seen so far.
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Patagonia..IS AWESOME THANKS
I was a lucky person who head a opportunity to ride on my motorcycle the whole length off the caretera austral....what a pleasure and a beautiful scenery.
Chili is a very very beautiful country ! I come to this paradise!
Its also very tasty...with a cold beer
Wow. I could have watched this all night. Thank you for the insight of Chile.
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Incredible!! It almost brought me to tears. My family is from Caleta El Manzano in Carretera Austral Km 70 Aprox. My grandfather worked in the first party opening the Carretera Austral, and as a local they were they very first opening the forest with Axes and showing them the way. Before the Carretera,they worked on the Alerce trees, chopping them and making the famous Alerce shingles. Then would embark them on sail ships and would bring them to Puerto Montt, it was a very dangerous journey by stormy Seas. Beside that occupation they were expert sailors and fishermen, fishing fish like the Chilean seabass, hake, conger eel , Chilean abalone, among other seafood that can only be found among those fiords. Pioneers there lived a basically completely auto sustainable life , producing everything they needed...beautiful memories.
Oh bless your heart
Patagonia is on my short list of places I would like to visit, watching this documentary has motivated me to start making plans!
Thank you DW for showing my beautiful country to world!
I'm from Belize central America a little jewel washed by the Caribbean sea but I've always been fascinated by Patagonia!!✌🙏🌎💖🤗💯
It’s kind of beautiful that this comment section is filled with so many different languages. People all around the world are able to enjoy the same music, type wholesome comments, and have their days improved while lifting up others too
Watched this during the Coronavirus outbreak and getting some serious wanderlust... Meanwhile, I'm stuck at home.
Patagonia and Chile are definitely on my bucket list though.
This is honestly one of the most interesting documentaries I have ever watched.
Applause to DW for an insightful documentary, and to the Americans who donated the park, and to the Chilean people, who are preserving one of the last great wildernesses on Earth. We need more efforts like this in Africa and Asia!
May the road never come ! May instead these wonderful and pristine areas be preserved forever !
Yes, I am from Chile! I think the Patagonia is a magic and beautiful place. I hope you make a documentary about The Atacama Dessert (specially about the starts and maybe the Alma project, etc), I think it's also a beautiful, out of this world kind of place. Thank you for your work!
30:38 That farmer has a great sense of humor.
Silent eM I literally laughed out loud when he was talking about buying computers for the cows.
Yes! So true! Same here...so funny! He made my day
He needs to use the Internet to find a better way to build fences.
@@kdegraa Yeah, before talking to cows thru computers, he should figure out fence building -----unless, his plan is to talk to the cows and tell them where they can and cannot go. That hunk of calf he was cooking looked dam good!
To be fair to the farmer, if his farm was isolated without a road to the outside world, it would have been difficult & expensive to get decent fencing materials like steel fence posts. Hopefully he will find ways on the Internet to improve his business.
Chilean Patagonia is the best 🇨🇱🏔🗻⛰️💕🇨🇱🇨🇱
26:24 - 29:00 those two minutes were majestic!!!
Thank you to all who put it together and shared it with us!
Chile you are beautiful. Many parts look the same as New Zealand only much, much, much bigger. Peace.
Yeah😳 as a kiwi I felt so at home watching that..., we are not special...... we are all special
Yeah, southern Chile looks the same as New Zealand and the people there are kind and warm too. The traditions are a balanced blend of spanish & aborigenous culture with a touch of austro-german and croatian cuisine.
By the way, appart from sharing landscapes and penguins, NZ and Chile also have in common a seaweed from the South Pacific, here it is called cochayuyo but its scientific name is Durvillaea Antarctica. In Chile it's used in cuisine and recently is being used in to elaborate cosmetics.
Looks like Norway too!
no really...the big one is in Argentina...
@Oti Jeremiah You sure about that? I don't think bolivians and peruvians living in Chile will agree with you. New Zealanders looked super friendly to me though :)
I just visited this area with my parents in January. Quite challenging ! We drove over 13000 km round trip from Brasil and spent almost 2 weeks in the region. I wish I’d seen this documentary before going there but this was very nice in retrospect. Great work as always!
Thank you ! Great documentary very interesting. Greetings from 🇲🇽 Mexico🙏
I am a serious armchair traveller and I enjoyed this trip immensely. What extraordinary places and sights and people. Juan's neighbourhood and customs are so inviting. The German village is beautiful and the overall documentary is well documented and informative. Wish I could actually see these places with my own eyes.
Watched on TV and came back on mobile app to congratulate the film makers. This is great work. I wish to travel to Chile someday.
Sure is beautiful country. I'd like to visit there someday. I live in Northern California near Mt. Shasta and the Redwoods and it's beautiful up here, too. We all must respect the land and water given us to protect.
Breathtaking and wonderful job by DW and superb pronunciation by narrator (I being an English teacher,) and unmatched beauty of nature and some of the visionaries from Chile and Germany (wow! Thousands of miles apart, great race).
Such a beautiful country ❤❤
Without Internet i would never see this beautiful side
We often dont realize how "south" south america reaches . This is like 50°s, its amazing
People don’t realize how freaking big South America is
The drone shots are awesome....
Beautiful photography ...
DW always soaring high on quality for documentaries ....good work
Chile is a South American success story. Love from England.......
Its so beautiful and the farmer is so gentle .... i just fall in love with the Country....
I was in Chaiten shortly before the volcano erupted. My family and I crossed the Andes mountains by car from Trevelin (Argentina) to Chaiten and let me tell you that portion of land between those two little towns was the most beautiful place I've ever been to. The lakes, the rivers, the waterfalls, the majestic mountains and the vegetation that turns into a mixture of forest and tropical jungle resting right beside the pacific... simply breathtaking. Knowing that it was partly destroyed by the eruption makes my heart ache.
Great documentary on one of the most beautiful places on earth. I like the focus on German influence as I am Chilean of German origin myself. Great work DW.
Hey buddy. Do you know if it's safe for a German to travel the route 7? Viele Grüße aus Hamburg✌️
@@hgehtdichnichtsan7718 Hi. You can safely travel all around the country... crime rate in Chile is lower than in the US. More so in such remote places as Patagonia, far from big cities, where only some tourists and friendly locals will be found. Cheers
@@hgehtdichnichtsan7718 Please come, no danger at all ;) just be nice to locals and they will be happy to even invite you a meal in their houses!
@@hgehtdichnichtsan7718 there is no people at all hahah
@@hgehtdichnichtsan7718 this zone is safe
The landscape reminds me of the South Island of New Zealand 🇳🇿 stunning 🤩
Just WOW! DW stands above the rest of documentary channels..👏. This docu makes me feel im in another dimension. More power and keep producing more high quality docus. Were here to support always❤
Astonishing landscapes but the nations culture just as much! Even the road looks good, I especially liked the bridge. Bravo Chile!
Es hermoso el sur de Chile , saludos desde Puerto Montt
Most beautiful documentary I've ever seen. Plus, the music is too good. Thanks DW team for such amazing content.
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This is beautiful, love from 🇳🇦
Chile a superb and magical location. This is an awesome documentary. Now I want to go there.
You have to go south, the people are wonderful, Santiago is the ugliest in Chile
ME TOO !!
We’re you riding a motorcycle? Meet a South African in Porto Montt?
Thank you for capturing the beauty of my motherland.
Your so lucky to be from such an awesome place.
It's beutiful..having been born in kenya Africa in such environment and all over sudden seing tree's 100yrs being fallen by illegal loggers..I can do anything to protect the forest
The natural beauty of Patagonia is epic.
The Terrain and Vegetation look remarkably like the Westland region of New Zealand .Greetings Neighbours.
Are you a Kiwi? If so, Greetings neighbour of the Pacific.
Dw documentaries is the only social media I need on my phone
Me too!!
Oh my god. This is just so unbelievably beautiful. I just hope one day...........
Hope all of this will still be all there for the future generations. 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
I always thought Patagonia looked like one of the most beautiful places on earth, I would love to go there. Excellent documentary, and I love the music that starts at about 16 minutes.
Thank you DW for this documentary which does justice to the landscape.
You guys are doing a great service to Humankind. Keep it up!!!
yes! destroying the edge of the river with a road is an act of kindness!
I really fascinated by landscapes from Chile. Dw I appreciated your work.
This is one of the most beautiful incredible places on Earth!
My cousin's drove the route from the tip of Alaska to the tip of South America by way of the coast in a Land Rover Jeep! And when the coast would not allow it to be driven they drove into the ocean as they were driving an amphibious landrover Jeep! They worked for National Geographic and the book subsequently written is called "20000 Miles", As best as I can remember it was in the 1950s when the book was published!?
What a beautiful country
whenever I get notification from DW Documentary that you have uploaded another documentary my reaction 😍😍😍😍
me too I have become addicted to DW documentary .. I find even hard to watch local news
.am from Kenya
best documentary channel ever
Me too. DW produces high quality documentaries, you can feel the producer put a lot of effort to do it . All my respects to DW! Thank you
Ive seen these beautiful places with my eyes. Ive travelled to Patagonia in 2018. Absolutely amazing!...
Patagonia: un destino imperdible .!!!
So remote yet so beautiful. Just wandering from Indonesia.
Thank you DW for giving an opportunity to perk into the Patagonia - Chile.
Perk=peek
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Thank you! Chile has many similarities with Indonesia regarding natural disasters, especially earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptions.
Fantastic documentary by DW 👏👏👏 I would love to see more of these kind 😊🇮🇪☘
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And none of my comments would be worthy of any respect if I didn’t also say that this documentary is 500% totally awesome! Well done DW. You do make countless numbers of excellent documentaries.
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@@DWDocumentary Yeah! And you’ve made so many excellent documentaries before I found out about your channel that I still have a lot of catching up to do! 🤗🥰
Route 7 is paved in most of its section now
Wow! Just wow! The road enriched with exhilarating stories, natural wonders and ever remembered history. How i wish i could come there.
One of the best documentary from DW... The beauty is mesmerizing
AMEN.
agree 😍
DW always tells the story from the perspective of the people; that's why their documentaries are so great. Thanks DW!
I've never seen anything as visually breathtaking as this, Patagonia. Wow... TH-cam algorithm is pretty amazing at times.
Best DW documentary so far. Would love to see more of these about other sparsely inhabited, wilderness regions. Kamchatka, Namibia, Greenland, and a few more spots, come to mind.
I need more videos like this, absolutely loved it, even with the few sad moments....I've loved geography and history since school and still do, so I really do hope to see many more videos about South and Latin America with the DW stamp, as then I'll know that it'll be 100% quality!
Phenomenal work, as always!