Border crossing Chile | Customs and Immigration

March 18th, 2024 by upperconfidence59

Very quick and easy broader crossing from Argentina to Chile. The officers were very friendly and examined our van, but not too throughly. He just looked in some of our drawers in our cooking area.

November 25th, 2023 by UPS

For leaving Chile you now need go through salvoconducto procedure in advance -https://pdivirtual.cerofilas.gob.cl (choose Trámites de Migraciones y Policía Internacional and click Iniciar trámite).
For entering Chile it is not necessary but another problem appeared - despite asking for that we were not given PDI paper form which might mean problems on leaving the country as this proof of entering Chile is required. We had to go to Balmaceda crossing and they issued this form for us post factum but it took a good hour...

March 10th, 2023 by RdamNatas Panamericana NL

The officer here was very friendly and helpful and fixed the problem the (young and probably inexperienced) Argentinian officer had caused by taking our motorhome papers and not giving us a copy of the PDI.
(We have seen all kinds of procedures by now so we we’re not alarmed by it..)

January 4th, 2023 by jeroen_sonneveld

Don't forget to check out here if you are heading toward Argentina, you can pass by this place easily. Also, if you are heading down south rethink this route as it's going to be a (very) long and bumpy ride untill Moreno(!). 2wheel drive is OK but on argentinan side not maintained roads.

April 13th, 2019 by Gran Viaje

We entered from Argentina. quick and easy, friendly agents. not a real aduana, pdi slip is a handwritten paper, just like paso roballes.
sag agent made us a copy of the dog papers since we only had the original.

June 18th, 2017 by alifefullofserendipity

Friendly officers warned us that road would be too dangerous and suggested to pass through Chile Chico or Raballos. Officer himself nearly had an accident because of the icy road. Not worth it. Argentinian officers didn't let two cars pass due to dangerous road. Supposedly there is a boat once a day at 4pm on a Sunday taking you to Chile Chico (ask for timetable during the week as it is different than on weekends).

May 10th, 2017 by americano.frenchpress

Tried to cross at Chile Chico (we have a Chilean car in our name), but officials did not want us to pass. Came here instead; much simpler process that took us 15 minutes.

February 21st, 2017 by Zverka

Perfect crossing, one man band. No waiting, noone checked our luggage or the car. If you are a foreigner with a Chilean car (owner) this is a border crossing for you.

February 14th, 2017 by juliajasmin.simon

Stop here to get the "salida" stamp of Chile. We didn't really realize that this was already the Chilean boarder control because it looked like an usual police office at the habour. We had to drive the whole way back when we were almost at the Argentinian boarder... the road to the Argentinian boarder is very good to drive... most of the parts are paved but 1 km before the Argentinian boarder it starts to get worse and this is just the beginning of a 2,5 hours graveled not ending road to Perito Moreno. The boarder control was quick as we were the only ones. But after driving this road we knew why ... a better alternative might be to drive via Chile Chico but we haven't checked that...

March 31st, 2016 by dominik.fretz

If you leave Chile from here, that's your border crossing. The papers are checked by the carabineros.