Cerro Tronador & Pampa Linda
Cerro Tronador
A dormant volcano on the Argentina-Chile border, about 3,470 meters high, with glaciers pouring down its flanks. Its ice avalanches roar like thunder, which gave it the name 'Thunder Mountain'.
Cerro Tronador (meaning 'thunderer') lies on the Argentina-Chile border about 80 km southwest of Bariloche. It is an ancient dormant volcano about 3,470 meters high, the highest peak in Nahuel Huapi National Park, covered with several glaciers whose thundering ice avalanches echo through the valleys, which gave it its name. Trips start from Pampa Linda. You enter along the shore of Mascardi Lake, and the final stretch is a gravel road with timed one-way traffic (usually inbound in the morning and outbound in the afternoon, as announced by the national park). From here you can walk the trail to the Glacier Waterfall at the foot of the glacier, or hike up to the Otto Meiling refuge. National Park entrance fees are charged separately. For a day trip, start early; it is often combined with Ventisquero Negro.
Opening hours
Open in summer; one-way timed passage
Nearby sights
- Ventisquero Negro
- Puerto Blest & Cascada Los Cántaros
- Cascada Los Alerces
- Cerro López
- Llao Llao Municipal Park
- Llao Llao Hotel & Capilla San Eduardo
- Lake Mascardi
- Circuito Chico