Air Traffic Control in Mendoza - What Does This Mean?

Air traffic control in mendoza hands off their flight tracking duties to air traffic control in santiago. So the pilots depend on radio navigation to determine where they are. The distance from there to curico, which is the nearest radio beacon is, is roughly around forty miles. It should take them about 11 minutes but it's more like one minute and a half. They're basically going around the mountain instead of over. And then they're only l at 18 thousand feet.