This is the Los Gnomos Lagoon, a glacier-fed lake at the terminus of the Enchanted Forest Trail in Chilean Patagonia’s remote Queulat National Park. As I posted back in April 2014, it’s a trail that admirably lives up to its name.
If you missed the post, one of the most visited on the site, it’s here; I updated quite a bit of the info today, adding a couple links, eliminating a few dead ones, and tacking on a couple photos, too.
The lagoon is the source of the southern Chile’s Cascada River; it in turn is fed by snow melt and a glacier through dozens of waterfalls that give the park its name. As I wrote in the post, Queulat, or Queolat as a native Chonos called it, means ‘sound of waterfalls’. Those sounds still echo from time to time.
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For the record, today’s Pic du Jour, the site’s 751st straight, was snapped on 25 February 2013 in Queulat National Park, near the village of Puyuhuapi, Chile.
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