Parque Natural Aguas de Ramón
Sprawling cordilleran nature reserve of sclerophyll forest laced with trails to waterfalls and mountain streams.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Parque Natural Aguas de Ramon in Santiago opens with an ordinary hike gone wrong on January 2, 2016, when Antonio Valdivia left his injured sister-in-law on a steep slope and ran for the park gate for help. From there it traces how a partnership between a water company, a state agency, the forestry service and the local municipality turned thousands of hectares of dry Andean forest into a hiking network, following the routes toward the Salto de Apoquindo and the shorter Salto del Peumo trail.
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