CONICET | Buscador de Institutos y Recursos Humanos

Tierra del Fuego (Patagonia, Argentina) is a re-known place due to its location and beauty. These attributes have drawn attention to adventurers during centuries as well as to visitors from all over the world and also to local and foreign researchers during decades. Witness of this situation was the Sixth Argentine Congress of Quaternary and Geomorphology which took place on April, 2015. A ﬁeld trip was organized within the frame of the Congress in order to expose the scientiﬁc knowledge of the region and to reveal several aspects of the uniqueness of Tierra del Fuego. This chapter proposes a geotourist itinerary in Southern Tierra del Fuego, taking into account the experience of the ﬁrst part of day 1 of the corresponding ﬁeld trip, that is, along the Ushuaia-Harberton transect. Geotourism is a modern way of tourism that focuses on experiencing the Earth geological and geomorphological features. In order to achieve this, special services and facilities can be organized, for instance guided visits, interpretative materials (such as booklets, signs, posters), viewpoints, thematic trails, among others. It is believed that this geotourist itinerary must start with the identiﬁcation of georesources that may allow in the future the design of a product to enhance this transect singularities. In this sense this chapter aims to: (a) present geotourism as a modern way of tourism, (b) outline the geological and geomorphological setting of Southern Tierra del Fuego, (c) select and describe different georesources in the Ushuaia-Harberton transect using a data-sheet designed ad hoc, and (d) discuss about geotourism as a bridge between science and leisure and how the former can be used to upraise the latter.