Located
30 Kms. from Puerto Natales. A short path that ends in the imposing cave of
30 Mts. of height and 200 Mts. of depth, in the slope of the mount Benitez.
In 1896 the scientific world was fascinated by the discovery in this cave of the skin, bones and other parts of an extinct animal, the Milodon (Mylodon Darwini).Scientists originally believed the remains to be fresh, indicating that the animal still existed. But later tests proved that the remains were thousands of years old.
The
milodon, a very large herbivore, is believed to have died out at the end of
the Pleistocene era.