our mission

Cascada Expediciones is a Chilean in-bound tour operator dedicated mainly to develop eco-friendly trips in the Patagonia, Chile, Argentina and Bolivia. We have more than 15 years offering a wide range of exciting trips in the region and most of our clients come from America and Europe. Our headquarters are located in Santiago de Chile. Additionally Cascada owns and operates the EcoCamp Patagonia, Torres del Paine NP – the first sustainable accommodation in the region, from which depart most of our trips in this Park including trekking, hiking, horseback riding, and fauna observation trips.

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Our goals can be stated as

• Create and provide quality Tourist Services, innovative and with the highest value in terms of the life experience related to it.
• Promote the benefits of Nature and Wilderness in its many forms, facilitate the discovery of the primitive spirit and create a deep understanding and respect to it.
• Provide the best life conditions for all the ones working at Cascada Expediciones, assuring it to become a tool for personal and professional development.
• Develop and promote Tourist Services which are environmentally sustainable, to provide ecotourism.

our team

• Yerko Ivelic
  Director, engineer by profession, kayak & rafting guide, who is in charge of operations and corporate programs.
• Javier López
  Director, engineer by profession and trekking guide, on the sales and marketing department.
• Britta Jedzik
  Born in the south of Germany, she always loved travelling and languages. So she studied tourism and started to travel around seriously, mostly in Latinamerica. But that was not enough for her adventurous mind, she wanted to really live “Latinamerica”. So 9 years ago she settled down in Chile, starting to work in Cascada at that time. She represented Cascada in London for a year, but finally she came back to Chile to enjoy sunshine and Pisco Sours (Chile´s national drink). Efficient and direct, she is Cascada´s sales manager and the head of the sales team.
• Maike Berkemeier
  Maike was born in Germany. During her studies she spent a lot of time abroad and in 2004 she came to Chile for an exchange, which originally supposed to last 6 month. However she fell in love with Chile and decided to stay for longer. She has been working for Cascada since 2005 and is now working as the Market Manager of the European, Australian, Asian and Brazilian Market. She likes traveling, sunshine and chocolate cakes.
• Cecilia Rojas
  Coming from Osorno (south of Chile), Cecilia is our Manager FIT in charge of the Free Independent Travelers that contact us directly through our website... Her passions are travelling, nature and snowboarding! Joined Cascada in 2006... Feel free to contact her if you need any help planning your trip!
• Isabel Menéndez
  Born in the southern city of Punta Arenas, Isabel started travelling around Patagonia very young. After studing English in Valparaiso, she decided to come back and work as a tour guide in Torres del Paine National Park. Then she moved to Santiago to learn more about the business and that’s how she got to Cascada, motivated for the development of making travelling a life changing experience with a solid committment to nature.
• Andrea Jimenez
  She was born in Chuquicamata -a town close to San Pedro de Atacama- and lived there for 18 years, something that made her become a lover of Northern Chile. After completing studies in tourism planning she joined Cascada in 2007 taking care of booking processing and helping in marketing research. She is very enthusiastic and enjoys a lot working here!
• Carolina Palma
  Carolina was born in Santiago. She is a lover of the beauty and geographic diversity of her country! Her pride of showing Chile to the rest of the world leaded her to study Tourism. She joined Cascada on August 2007, where she has been working as a Sales Assistant of the European market until now.
• Fernanda Sánchez
  Born in Santiago, Fernanda is a lover of the great natural diversity of her country and this leads her into study Tourism Planning at SEK International University. Along with studying she worked in some freelance jobs related with tourism and in an important international chain of hotels. Now, after getting her degree she joins Cascada as the FIT market assistant. She is very enthusiastic to work here and answer all of your questions.
• Virginia Jensen
  Virginia was born in the Northwest part of Argentina and studied Tourism at the University in Buenos Aires. She lived in Denmark and Palma de Mallorca, Spain, and now she’s living in Chile. She loves outdoor activities and complements them with some cultural activities. She is working in Cascada as Canada & USA Market Assistant.
• Susana Mendoza
  Susana was born in Talcahuano, but being very young she moved to Punta Arenas. After finishing school, she moved to Concepción to study Translation in German and English in the University of Concepción. Her love for Patagonia made her return and she worked as a local guide in Punta Arenas and as an expedition guide on board of a cruise ship. She joined Cascada on October 2009.
• Celesta Hatumena
  Celesta was born in Holland, but she has always liked being in other countries. She is doing her internship at the Sales department to study business and languages before she finishes tourism, and she really likes to work here at Cascada. Furthermore she loves music, shopping and travelling. She definitively is a person who enjoys life and apart from that she is always into learning new languages and foreign cultures!
• Rodrigo Mata
  Graduated in business, Rod worked as consultant just to realize that ties were not for him, deciding to switch to hospitality and tourism. After joining Cascada in 2004, he has worked in sales in the US and Australian markets and today he is dedicated to product development and marketing strategy for Cascada and EcoCamp Patagonia.
• Daniel Sanhueza
  Daniel joined Cascada in 2004 and today manages Communications in the Marketing department. He loves the outdoors and climbing mountains in the Andes. Now he is learning surfing (at least he says that…you now..marketers!). If you are from a media looking for info or want to propose Cascada a communication bridge, he is the right guy to talk with
• Patricia Mata
  Graphic designer, born and raised in Venezuela, with studies of philosophy (Spain), Pati moved to Chile in 2004. She works in the marketing area.
• Verónica Venegas
  Vero studied Tourism Administration and joined Cascada in 2003 as a Consultant for USA & Canada markets. These days she´s in charge of Cascada’s Operations, dealing with providers and making sure that everything works smoothly for holiday passengers. Vero is also teaching at SEK International University and in her free time she loves to visit new places and cultures.
• Paulina Delgado
  Paulina has been working for 11 years in Cascada!!!, she loves nature and she loves the heathy and natural way of life, she is in charge of the"traffic" department.
• Ana Karina Morales
  Born in Santiago, she is a lover of languages and cultural diversity. Ana Karina studied English and Portuguese Translation at USACH and during last years she has been related to Education, Tourism and Hotel bussines. Now, she joins Cascada as the person in charge of Emergency and Customer Service providing support to our Operations department. She is very friendly and charismatic and loves challenges and learning lot of things!
• Cecilia Andrade
  Works at our "traffic" department, purchasing third party services and maintaining our clients´files
• Marcela Armijo
  Assists the operational staff.
• Patricio Andrade
  Pato provides tech support and help us solve specific problems, thank goodness he’s there!
• Osvaldo Sánchez
  Accountant
• Francisco Escobar
  Accountant assistant
• Elizabeth Veliz
  Our secretary was born in Santiago and is very fond of her Chilean roots. Ely has always been related to Environmental Education and made studies of Management and Planning in this area. She joined the Cascada staff with great expectations!
• Sebastián Gómez
  Our general manager for the whole Patagonia. On the 2nd year of working at the EcoCamp Sebastián fell in love, married & now rises a daughter in Puerto Natales. Blame "love" responsible not the EcoCamp.
• Patricio Lehuedé
  Ecocamp Manager. Born and raised in Santiago, Pato lived there until he went to work as a Cuisinier in Spain. Since then, he`s always looking for a smaller place to live. He joined Cascada in 2008.
• Carolina Canto
  Born in Punta Arenas, with traditions and nature of Patagonia integrated, she decided to expand in the tourist area to share her knowledge about the southern lands. Therefore, she got a title of Technician in Tourism as well as a Diploma in Biodiversity and Patagonia Culture. Also an advanced first aid course for remote areas (SAN / WFR) Lifeguard and CPR, specialized in Trekking Guide - Horseback Riding.

location of our offices

Santiago
Our Sales, Marketing, traffic (reservations) and account departments are in this office is located in Las Condes, a mix of residential and commercial buildings area, teeming with restaurants and pubs. At the office there are 16-19 people, depending on the season.

Patagonia
Our operational office is located in Puerto Natales, 120km/ 75miles south from the celebrated Torres del Paine National Park.