Known for its hot springs, El Amarillo is a small rural town located 25 kilometers southeast of Chaitén and south Pumalín Douglas Tompkins National Park. It only has one street, few inhabitants, and a clean and green evironment.
For locals, this place is “the center of the world.” Its tranquility and safety overwhelm you, giving you the feeling that nothing bad will happen. Everyone kindly greets you with a smile on their face. And its privileged location offers gorgeous views of green meadows, snowy mountains, and the imposing Michimahuida Volcano.
A few years ago, this area was not considered a tourist attraction for its precarious appearance, until businessman, Douglas Tompkins began a project to make this area beautiful – “The Conservation Land Trust”-, that consisted in remodeling the few houses in this town.
The result is surprising: paved streets that have dozens of wooden houses on their sides. These have an architecture inspired on European countryside, all of them very well-kept and painted in attractive colors. Each house has a garden and wooden fences that give life to a unique landscape in the Carretera Austral.
Despite its location in the southern end of the country, visitors can find accommodation, Internet connection, good cell phone service, and a market that has food, clothes, camping items, fly fishing accessories, or crockery, to mention some of the products.
