Punta Arenas is a city and a port on the southern tip of Chile , capital of the Region of Magallanes and Chilean Antarctica. It is located at 53 � 10'01 "S 70 � 56'01 "W , on the Brunswick Peninsula , on the banks of continental Strait of Magellan , and a few kilometers from Cape Froward the southernmost point of the mainland of America . It is for historical, demographic, social and strategic considered the "Capital of the Chilean Patagonia . "
The city's strategic location for its headquarters Army Division V, the Commander of the Third Naval Zone of the Chilean Navy and the IV Air Brigade air force attached to the airport based on the sector Chabunco also Asmar has shipyard in the southernmost city in the world.
Integra along with the municipalities of Puerto Natales , Torres del Paine , Porvenir , Rio Verde , Laguna Blanca, Spring ,San Gregorio , Timaukel , Antarctica and Cape Horn Region of Magallanes and Chilean Antarctica , and in turn the Electoral District No. 60 and belongs to the 19th Senatorial District ( Magallanes ).
Before the opening of the Panama Canal in 1914 was the main port in the navigation between the Pacific and Atlantic to be located in the Strait of Magellan , between now dating his heyday, which made a great cosmopolitan commercial center the southern tip of South America. This has made it the center of the city a European in design and outstanding architecture.
Punta Arenas concentrates a large auto-park over 200 000 vehicles,so the faster service and more often is the collective, covering the various radii of the city, taking routes through strategic such as, the financial district and downtown, hospitals and clinics, points of commerce, universities and colleges, as well as for home tours.
After the bidding of 2009, which sought to improve, expand and organize a micro-buses park, which prior to this, was virtually nonexistent in the regional capital, the companyGasco Magallanes , and proposes an
