Cerro Sombrero is a village in southern Chile

Chile

Chile ,officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long, narrow coastal strip between the Andes mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far...

, in the Primavera

Primavera, Chile

Primavera is a Chilean commune in Tierra del Fuego Province, Magallanes and Antartica Chilena Region. It is located on the north of Tierra del Fuego Island...

 commune, on the Northern part of Tierra del Fuego

Tierra del Fuego

Tierra del Fuego is an archipelago off the southernmost tip of the South American mainland, across the Strait of Magellan. The archipelago consists of a main island Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego divided between Chile and Argentina with an area of , and a group of smaller islands including Cape...

, in Magallanes Region, about 125 km from Porvenir. According to the 2002 census, it had 687 inhabitants.

The village is located near a small hill from which it received its name. It was founded in 1958 as a residential and services centre for the National Petroleum Company, ENAP

Empresa Nacional del Petróleo

Empresa Nacional del Petróleo, or ENAP is a state owned company in Chile, based in Las Condes. The company is engaged in the exploration, production, refining, and marketing of hydrocarbons and their derivatives. ENAP was created by Law No. 9618, June 19, 1950...

, in Tierra del Fuego, with over 150 houses, and equipped with a gymnasium, swimming pool, botanical garden, movie theatre, church, hospital, airport, warehouses, supermarket, restaurant, lodgings and gas station, in addition to the ENAP

Empresa Nacional del Petróleo

Empresa Nacional del Petróleo, or ENAP is a state owned company in Chile, based in Las Condes. The company is engaged in the exploration, production, refining, and marketing of hydrocarbons and their derivatives. ENAP was created by Law No. 9618, June 19, 1950...

 offices. (Cullen is another important ENAP settlement in Tierra del Fuego.)

This settlement is a natural entry point to the Chilean-Argentine Tierra del Fuego area. Nearby is Bahía Lomas

Bahía Lomas

Bahia Lomas is a wetland in Southern Chile, in the Tierra del Fuego region, near the Strait of Magellan.*List of Ramsar wetlands of international importance...

, a place of biotic importance within the region. Bird watchers will enjoy the nesting places for a wide variety of shorebird species, both resident as well as migratory.

Río del Oro

Río del Oro

-References:*Atlas of Mexico, 1975 .*The Prentice Hall American World Atlas, 1984.*Rand McNally, The New International Atlas, 1993....

, near Porvenir, just in the middle of the Tierra del Fuego steppe

Steppe

In physical geography, steppe is an ecoregion, in the montane grasslands and shrublands and temperate grasslands, savannas, and shrublands biomes, characterized by grassland plains without trees apart from those near rivers and lakes...

, is a popular fishing area for a variety of trout.