Farellones is a small mountain village in Central Chile. It is located east of Santiago at an altitude of 2,340 meters. Farellones is in close proximity to the ski resorts of La Parva, El Colorado, and Valle Nevado.
Farellones' houses and cabins are made of wood, giving the village its characteristic look.
Farellones has only a few ski runs but its cable car system provides access to El Colorado, 5 km up the hill of the same name. They are often considered as a single ski area with a total of 62 runs: 11 for beginners, 6 for intermediates, 33 for advanced skiers and 12 for experts. They have a maximum altitude of 3,333 meters above sea level, a vertical descent of 906 metres and an average of 5 meters snowfall in an average year. They are popular with beginners and families.
Farallones is 36 km from Santiago, and accessible from Santiago by car or bus.
There is only one road giving access to the village through the winding canyons of the Mapocho River, Molina River and Estero Yerba Loca river. From Corral Quemado onwards, the road has more than 40 hairpin turns and requires a vehicle equipped with snow chains in snowy conditions. The road only permits ascent between the hours of 08:30 and 13:30 and descent from 15:30 to 20:00 during peak ski season days.
At one side of the road to Valle Nevado is the Casa de Piedra de Farellones (Farellones Stone House), a stone structure that is believed to have been built by the Aconcagua people (late neolithic). It is thought to have been used as a temporary refuge in expeditions to gather the special kind of stone needed for making tools hunting Guanacos.
The Hotel Posada de Farellones is made from a mix of wood and stone in the Swiss style and was built in the late 1930s by Antonio Padrós. Its location allowed easy access to the three main ski resorts in Chile, which together form the biggest ski area of South America and the southern hemisphere: La Parva, El Colorado-Farellones and Valle Nevado.
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