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The second largest town in Tierra del Fuego, Rio Grande is also the only town of significance in the centre and north of the island. The sterile-looking plains that surround it and stretch to the north harbour fields of petroleum and natural gas that generate over $130 million of wealth annually, with over 1.5million cubic metres of gas a year exported by pipeline to Ushuaia and as far away as Buenos Aires and Rio Negro. To the north of town, the RN3 runs through monotonous scenery towards San Sebastian, where you cross the border into Chile or continue north on a dead-end route to the mouth of the Magellan Straits at Cabo Espiritu Santo. Heading south of town towards Tolhuin, the RN3 crosses the Rio Grande, and soon enters the woodland scenery of the central region. One of the region's principal tourist draws is its world-class trout fishing , especially for sea-running brown trout, which on occasion swell to weights in excess of 14kg. The Rio Grande currently holds five of the fly-fishing world records for brown trout caught with various breaking strains of line. The mouths of the Rio Fuego and Rio Ewan can also be spectacularly fruitful; as can sections of the Malenguena, Leticia, Irigoyen, Indio, Claro and Turbio rivers; and lakes Yehuin and Fagnano.
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