Importance of "Cabo de Hornos" 

 
  


 
The terrestrial ecosystems of the new Reservation are characterized for: 
 

- to constitute the most southern forest ecosystems in the planet. 

- to represent one of the very scarce temperate forests no-broken into fragments in the world.

- to have been identified as one of the most primitive wild area in the world (remote, virgin, exotic, singular)

- to represent the limit of distribution in south for many classes of animals and flowers in a level of species, goods, families and even orders. 

- from the social view, this represents the most southern territory in the planet with population pre-columbus, because this coincides with the ancestral territory of the town "Yámana or Yagán." 



 


 
Also, the marine-coastal ecosystems of the area are distinguished for: 


- to represent a very important point in the history of the world sailing, it constitutes the most southern interoceánic point of the planet, among the oceans Pacific and Atlantic. 

- to present a relative escases in almost all the groups, independent of the quantity of present species. 

- to exist a great heterogeneity of marine-coastal habitat, that makes that the area is covered for great diversity of algae, of some groups of spineless and of marine vertebrales.