A section of its border with Argentina in the Southern Patagonian Ice Field is under dispute.

[5] As a province, Última Esperanza is a second-level administrative division of Chile, which is further divided into two communes (comunas): Puerto Natales and Torres del Paine.

Ana Ester Mayorga Bahamonde was appointed governor by president Sebastián Piñera.

Also part of the biggest non-polar glacier, the Southern Patagonian Ice Field is within Última Esperanza.

Cueva del Milodón Natural Monument, where prehistoric human occupation has been documented,[6] is also within this province.