Puerto Eden

Puerto Eden is sited at Wellington Island and is the last populated place in the sea-lane between Puerto Montt and Puerto Natales, sailing on Messier Channel in the area of South Patagonian Ice Field. Puerto Eden can only be reached by seaway from Puerto Montt, from north to south, or from Punta Arenas or Puerto Natales south to north.

Their first inhabitants were native tribes of the region, Kawescar or Alacalufes. Nowadays lives here the last members of this ethnic group, ready to extinction. President Pedro Aguirre Cerda, in 1939, ordered the Air Force to give protection and help to the Kawescar, making the most of the presence in Puerto Eden of the radio station of help to aerial navigation for flights among Puerto Montt and Punta Arenas.

Today Puerto Eden has about 250 inhabitantss.
The main economic activity is fishery, extraction of mussels and civil service.