Pawstral is a furry convention in Santiago, Chile. Launched in 2025 and run by Pawstral Furcon SpA, it's a winter-season, strictly-18+ con that has quickly become one of the country's flagship furry gatherings.
Pawstral has not announced its 2027 dates, venue or ticket prices yet. In their closing thank-you after the 2026 edition, the organizers promised something even bigger for next year and teased sailing the seven seas to find the great treasure, which hints at the next theme without naming it. Both editions so far ran on a late-August weekend, and in 2026 weekend ticket sales closed on 10 July, six weeks before the convention, so watch the official Telegram channel and pawstral.cl for the ticket launch.
Pawstral put Chile on the furry-convention map in 2025 and filled a downtown hotel by its second year. What makes it worth the flight is how thoroughly local it is. In 2026 the theme was dieselpunk, but the programming was not generic: a geologist walking you through Chilean rocks and minerals, a panel on post-apocalyptic architecture, a craft beer session, a wine tasting, and a conservation talk from the biologists the convention raised money for. The rooms were named after Santiago landmarks rather than numbered, and the con's own mascot is a colocolo, a wildcat native to Chile.
It is also a convention that plans for people arriving alone. In 2026 Sunday morning ran a first-timers' meet alongside separate gatherings for greymuzzles, artists, musicians, IT workers and Pokémon fans, and Friday evening opened with a social mixer before anything else competed for attention. For 18+ furries across Chile, Argentina and Peru, this is the flagship weekend of the Southern Cone calendar.
Schedule and programming for 2027 is not published yet.
The price for 2027 has not been announced. The figure is from 2026, for reference only, so check the convention's own site before you budget.
≈ $ figures are approximate US dollars, rates as of 9 Oct 2026 from ExchangeRate-API open access.
By air: Santiago's Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport (SCL) is the gateway for every international attendee and sits north-west of the city centre. Official airport transfer buses and shared shuttles run into the centre through the day, and a taxi or rideshare is the direct option; allow for Santiago traffic rather than the map's estimate.
Around Santiago: Pawstral has not named its 2027 hotel. It began at the ICON Hotel in Las Condes in 2025 and moved to Hotel Le Méridien Santiago at the eastern end of the Alameda in 2026, a short walk from Plaza Baquedano where Metro Lines 1 and 5 interchange. Santiago's Metro reaches both areas, so check the next venue announcement before you book transport.
Both editions so far were held in a hotel, and in 2026 the convention negotiated a discounted attendee rate at Hotel Le Méridien Santiago and published booking instructions on its own site. Demand was heavy enough that a second room block was opened in May after the first filled, and the rave ran until 3am, long after public transport thins out, so staying in the venue hotel paid off.
For 2027, wait for the venue announcement and the room-block instructions on pawstral.cl. August is winter in Chile and central Santiago stays busy, so book early once the venue is known.
A year-by-year record of this convention.
Open an edition to see the details that belong to that year.
Personalised badge, lanyard, conbook, tote, reusable cup
Adds the commemorative shirt, priority Dealer's Den entry, pin, print
Adds the hoodie, priority ceremony seating, sponsor dinner, glass cup
Adds the Thursday-night exclusive dinner with staff and guests
≈ $ figures are approximate US dollars, rates as of 9 Oct 2026 from ExchangeRate-API open access.
Every weekend tier sold out and sales closed on 10 July 2026. Day passes are the remaining way in: they were on sale on 28 July 2026 and can also be bought at accreditation or at the door, though they carry a basic wristband and an unpersonalised badge rather than the full tier kit.
Worth catching
A selection of the convention published grid, kept SFW. Pawstral is strictly 18+ and runs a late-night After Dark track that is not listed here; the complete timetable, room by room, is on the convention own calendar. Several workshops need sign-up in advance.
Pawstral's second edition ran August 21-23, 2026 at Hotel Le Méridien Santiago with the dieselpunk, Mad Max-style theme "Furry Road". Guests of Honor were the fursuit and puppet maker Cochayuyo Creations and "I Think I Like You!", the wolf-and-rabbit webcomic by Heru and Syd. All four weekend tiers, from General at CLP 95,000 up to MEGA at 420,000, sold out, and late-July day passes at CLP 30,000, 55,000 and 80,000 for one, two and three days were the last way in. The Sunday auction sent all of its proceeds to Fundación Sudamérica Diversa, a Chilean conservation foundation working on the taruka, whose biologists also gave a Saturday panel on how the deer survives in the Atacama.
Pawstral's debut edition ran August 29-31, 2025 at the ICON Hotel in Santiago's Las Condes district, themed "Monster Invasion" (Invasión de Monstruos), with a mascot named Aylén, a giant colocolo wildcat. The 2026 edition moved to Hotel Le Méridien on the central Alameda.
2027
Dates TBA
2026
Aug 21-23
Theme
Furry Road
2025
Aug 29-31
Theme
Monster Invasion
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