Fishing near Puerto Deseado, Santa Cruz

Puerto Deseado sits at the mouth of the Ría Deseado, a long narrow estuary cutting into the Patagonian Atlantic coast in Santa Cruz Province. The ría and the surrounding coastal waters draw anglers to one of the most productive marine environments in Argentine Patagonia, while a scatter of lagoons in the surrounding steppe — Laguna La Porteña, Laguna del Indio, and others — round out the local fishing picture.