El conquistador del fin del mundo

Its contestants are divided in two groups that compete between them with different events apart from the climate, hunger, thirst and so on. The physical condition and the capability to live with strangers are also very important in order to win this competition. This program is based on other previous ones like Basetxea and Conquistadores del fin del mundo. In its first shot in 2005, twelve out of its sixteen contestants where from the Basque Country and the other four from Argentina, but with basque roots. The goal is to bring the ikurriña (Basque flag), to the Les Éclaireus lighthouse in the Bahía de Ushuaia. Early in the year 2008, it was shot exclusively for Argentinian spectators. In 2014, the scene was the Iguazu waterfall's rainforest. In 2016 it took part in the Amazonas rainforest.

It was awarded as the Best Entertainment Autonomic Program of 2008 by the Academy of Spanish Television. It is usually considered one of the most extreme shows on television because of the combination of extreme events, survival and cohabitation, and also because of the format of the reality, that changes every year surprising the contestants and the audience. For all of that, each edition gathers more followers, not only in the Basque Country, but also in other provinces, achieving assessments 25% higher than the average of the channel.

Some groups pro animal rights reported that the program encourages animal mistreatment in some of its events by killing chickens, frogs, worms and fish or even for feeding an animal until it threw up. The Aranzadi Science Society has also reported that an inoffensive protected species of snake was killed, as well as some other animals under the same circumstances.

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