===Trail Name===
While hiking the trail I have long thought how to name this trail.
to The trail crosses various regions that are rather unknown outside of Chile and Argentina. Few people have ever heard about Maule or Bio-Bio and might associate whatever with these words but not an outstanding trekking region. Therefore naming the trail after the actual regions is not a good choice. On the other side naming the trail after the Andes would be issueda huge exaggeration because the trail spans only a smaller part of this 7000 km long mountain range. Naming the trail after Patagonia would be incorrect, because most of the trail is actually not located in Patagonia at least when applying the traditional limits of this region. To be precise and well descriptive at the same time I decided to name the entire trail region "Greater Patagonia" that includes Patagonia and the surrounding area (like "Greater London" includes the city of London and the surrounding areas). This applies well to the entire trail because all parts of the route are located at least 100 km within the traditional limits of Patagonia. Most of the trail is even much closer to Patagonia. The name “Greater Patagonian Trail” is descriptive in two more aspects: * With more than 1300 km it’s a great trail in length * It’s great trail in beauty.And it is well descriptive because Patagonia is legendary.
===Publishing of the Trail===
