It's estimated that the 935-square-mile Torres Del Paine in southern Patagonia is home to more than 50 pumas, giving it one of the world's densest big cat populations. TDP has been my neighbor since 2016 and we are all following the life and news about the pumas here. *Minimum expedition length to ensure Puma sightings is 3 full days (5d/4n), and for photographers 5 full days (7d/6n). The puma is a member of the Felidae family and is the largest predator in Patagonia. The South American Puma is a feline with a muscular and slender body. After many years of Pumas being hunted in Torres del Paine region by farmers trying to protect their livestock, the hunting of Pumas was banned in the park. It’s also inhabited by a special collection of plants and animals that call Patagonia their home, many of them extremely photogenic in their natural habitat. Since then, with no predators to speak of, and an unlimited food supply of juicy guanacos, the Puma population has been steadily growing.
Puma Safari in Patagonia.
Pumas have a rounded head with erect ears and strong jaws for clutching prey.
Females weigh 110 pounds while the larger male weighs approximately 176 pounds, and they are generally between 10 to 12 feet in length. It has been well documented that condors arrive in mass to the kill site of pumas. In Patagonia, there are no other large predators, but pumas here kill 50% more prey per year due to being forced off of prey by an unlikely species — Andean condor. Take a look to our private photographic puma trips with three accommodation options.
Read facts and information on the Pumas in Patagonia … This makes the pumas nervous and they sacrifice their kill to the multitude of scavengers.
This article will give you some general information about the puma, why puma-watching and photography here is the best place and what puma-watching guarantee is, and what you will be paying for depending on the degree of guarantee you will get.
The Patagonia Puma is the largest land carnivore in Chile. Puma is a genus in the family Felidae that contains the cougar (also known as the puma and mountain lion, among other names), and may also include several poorly known Old World fossil representatives (for example, Puma pardoides, or Owen's panther, a large, cougar-like cat of Eurasia's Pliocene).
Puma tracking trips in Torres del Paine. In Chilie, ranchers claim to kill as many as 100 pumas each year.