Overview

• By Friday morning and early afternoon, waits to enter Chile reached roughly six hours at the Los Libertadores complex.
• Authorities kept the pass on a 24-hour summer schedule with all 18 Chile-side cabins active and later added six extra processing points to speed flow.
• On the Argentine side at Horcones, 11 cabins were operating around the clock with reported waits under 10 minutes.
• Official counts show 7,920 people entered Chile between Wednesday and Thursday, while 6,131 entered Argentina in the same period.
• Forecasts signaled a chance of light rain and light snow later Friday with subzero temperatures, and officials suggested wait times could ease as traffic tapers.