Patagonia

Patagonia is the southern end of South America, shared by Argentina and Chile, stretching from the Colorado river and the southern Andes to Tierra del Fuego. It combines mountains, steppe plateaus and a fjord coast, and was long the land of Tehuelche, Mapuche and other peoples. Argentina and Chile occupied it in the late 19th century, Argentina through the military Conquest of the Desert of 1878 to 1885.