Valle Nevado

The ski resort Valle Nevado is located in the Santiago Metropolitan Region (Región Metropolitana de Santiago) (Chile). For skiing and snowboarding, there are 40 km of slopes available. 14 lifts transport the guests. The winter sports area is situated between the elevations of 2,860 and 3,670 m.

A high-rise, purpose-built resort in the mode of Les Arcs – not surprisingly as it was designed by the Chilean architect Eduardo Stern after he’d worked in France and on the Les Arcs project. The village is 60km from Chile’s capital city Santiago, at the top of a winding approach road. There are three hotels, a small communal outdoor pool, a selection of shops, hotel bars and a nightclub. The slopes form a small network of well-groomed, mainly intermediate pistes that share links with those in El Colorado and La Parva. Together they offer South America’s most extensive and varied ski area, but there is no joint lift pass – you have to buy daily extensions to the local pass. Two more lifts serving five new runs opened for 2010. New apartments being built too. ‘The whole experience was surprisingly good’, says a reporter.

Has the climate crisis and the higher temperatures affected snow conditions in Valle Nevado?
Look at the statistics and graph of historical snow depths for the ski resort.
For the last 5 years, week 35 has been the most insecure with 109cm snow depth on average in Valle Nevado.
The measurement is made as an average of the snow depth at the highest and lowest point of the mountain.

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