| These include Rio Fuerte Beaded Lizards, Grey Mouse Lemurs, Geoffroy's marmosets and African Spurred Tortoises. |
| The first Chilean settlement was Fuerte Bulnes, situated in a forested zone on the north side of the strait. |
| Rivers which flow into the Gulf of California include the Colorado, Fuerte, Mayo, Sinaloa, Sonora, and the Yaqui. |
| Major ruins include Tiwanaku, El Fuerte de Samaipata, Inkallaqta and Iskanawaya. |
| Fuerte Bulnes was later abandoned, and in 1848 the city of Punta Arenas was founded farther north where the Magellanic forests meets the Patagonian plains. |
