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Tierra del Fuego ( Spanish: land of fire) is an archipelago at the southernmost tip of South America. In 1881 it was divided between Argentina and Chile. The archipelago consists of a main island ( Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego, often called Tierra del Fuego as well), and a group of smaller islands. It is separated from the continent by the Strait of Magellan. The southern point of the archipelago, in Chile, forms Cape Horn.

The main industries are oil, natural gas, sheep farming and ecotourismEcotourism essentially means ecological tourism, where ecological has both environmental and social connotations. It is defined both as a concept / tourism movement and as a tourism sector. Born in its current form in the late 1980s, Ecotourism came of ag. The largest island is Tierra del Fuego, or Isla Grande, with an area of 48,100 km². Half of this island, and the islands west and south of it, are part of the Magallanes Region of ChileThe XII Region of Magallanes y la Antartica Chilena is the southernmost, largest and least populated part of Chilean territory. This region has many globally known places and geographical accidents like Torres del Paine, Cape Horn, Tierra del Fuego island, the capital and chief town of which is Punta ArenasPunta Arenas is the main city in the Strait of Magellan and the capital of the Region de Magallanes y la Antartica Chilena, Chile. It is often considered the southernmost city in the world, although there are towns further south on Tierra del Fuego as wel, situated on the mainland across the strait. The biggest Chilean towns are PorvenirFounded in 1883 by immigrants from Croatia and Chiloe during a minor nineteenth century gold rush, Porvenir is the capital of the Chilean province of Tierra del Fuego. It is a small town of 5,400 inhabitants and several thousand soldiers. Nonetheless, it, on the main island, and Puerto Williams, on Navarino Island . Puerto Williams is the most southerly town on the planet, unless you count Antarctic stations.

The eastern part of the archipelago belongs to Argentina, forming the federal district of Tierra del FuegoTierra del Fuego, Antarctica, and South Atlantic Islands ( Sp. Provincia de Tierra del Fuego, Antartida e Islas del Atlantico Sur is a province entirely separated by the Strait of Magellan from mainland Argentina on the Isla Grande of Tierra del Fuego, wh; its capital, UshuaiaUshuaia is the southernmost city in the world. It is located on the southern coast of Tierra del Fuego in Argentina, in a spectacular setting surrounded by mountains and overlooking the Beagle Channel. The city has about 50,000 inhabitants. The city was o, is Argentina's most southerly city, the other important town being Rio GrandeThis article is about the river to the Gulf of Mexico. See Rio Grande (disambiguation) for other meanings. For the movie Rio Bravo see Rio Bravo (movie). Big Bend National Park, Texas The Rio Grande (called the Rio Bravo or, more formally, the Rio Bravo d, near the Atlantic coast.

Its name comes from the many fires (fuego in Spanish) of the Amerindians, which were visible from the sea. It was named by Ferdinand Magellan, who was the first European to pass it in 1520.

Tierra del Fuego is the name of a 2000 movie by Chilean filmmaker Miguel Littín , starring Ornella Muti and Jorge Perugorría .