Description

The name Patagonia comes from an observation made by Ferdinand Magellan who visited the region during his historic expedition around the world Marveled by the height of the indigenous people he referred to the region as a land of giants Those giants were the Tehuelches named by Magellans expedition as Patagones and the chronicles of that trip written by Antonio Pigafetta popularized the term Patagones a term that refers to their big feet in Spanish patones means of big feet This description would later derive in the name Patagonia