Santuario de la Naturaleza El Arrayán

This guide to the Santuario de la Naturaleza El Arrayán in Santiago untangles a mismatch between the vast hectares written into its 1973 founding decree and the small streamside picnic ground you can actually walk in an afternoon. It follows the two men behind that history: Enrique Amunategui Johnson, who bought the land as a private estate in the 1950s, and the Air Force general he later handed it to, who petitioned to protect it instead of selling. You're walking the same three-kilometer muleteer route that once carried arrieros and pack animals toward the Manzano ravine.