Estancia San Pedro de Timote
San Pedro de Timote is an estancia (country estate / cattle farm) in the Uruguayan department of Florida . Today (2010) reduced to a fraction of its original size and run as a hotel, it was one of the largest estancias in the country in the 19th and 20th centuries. Due to the stately Casco , the main and farm buildings, built in the 1920-1940s in the Andalusian style, San Pedro is still one of the most famous estancias in Uruguay.
history
Documents about ownership of the lands are almost as old as the history of colonial Uruguay. From 1745 until their exile from colonial Spanish America in 1767, the Jesuits were the masters. The property measured about 100,000 hectares. The use of the land in the times of the Jesuits and in the following decades consisted of catching and processing (leather, jerky meat) of the semi-wild cattle, which grazed in huge herds in the pampas .
The founding of San Pedro in the form in which it has existed for the longest time goes back to the Anglo-Uruguayan Estanciero Pedro José Jackson in 1854. San Pedro came into the property of the equally well-known Estanciero families Heber and thereafter through inheritance Gallinal. Alejandro Gallinal developed San Pedro from 1901 into a model estate, from which many impulses for the optimization of the livestock industry in Uruguay originated, the breeding of the Hereford breed and the optimization of pasture. Under his son Alberto Gallinal from 1940 the estate was a center for the breeding of the Corriedale sheep breed . For almost 150 years, San Pedro produced on its immense land, 35,000 hectares z. B. in 1875, wool and beef. The Gallinal era ended in the 1990s with the sale of the last 500 hectares with the historic building core, the Casco.
San Pedro is an impressive testimony to the prosperity of the estancieros , the large landowners in the first half of the 20th century.
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Coordinates: 33 ° 47 ′ 16 ″ S , 55 ° 40 ′ 19 ″ W