Light railway of the Luz María and Chobo sugar factories

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Light railway of the sugar factories Luz María and Chobo
Decauville de los Ingenios Luz María y Chobo
Chopping plant of Ingenio Luz María Residential and office building of the manager
Chopping system from Ingenio Luz María

Casa del administrador y oficina, Ingenio azucarero Luz María, Yaguachi, Guayas (Biblioteca Municipal de Guayaquil DF00000014003481) (cropped) .jpg

Residential and office building of the administrator
Gauge : 600 mm ( narrow gauge )

The light railway of the Luz María and Chobo sugar factories was a light railway with a gauge of 600 mm near Milagro in Cantón Yaguachi, Guayas Province , Ecuador .

location

In the municipality of Chobo were the plantations and sugar factories of the Compañía Azucarera Iluzmarsa, including San Nicolas , La Gloria , formerly known as La Carmelina , La Palma and Luz María , formerly Santa Rosa de Chobo . The town hall has been on the site of the Luz María plantation since 1867, which at that time was mainly used for sugar production.

history

Homero Morla

The businessman and politician Homero Morla Mendoza (1844-1918) from Guayaquil was the owner of the estates, Guabí, San Nicolás, Luz María de Chobo (formerly Santa Rosa de Chobo), Matilde, Chirijo and Guasmo (all in Milagro) and founder of the Luz María and Chobo sugar factories.

He was a son of Nicolas Mariano Morla and Maria Encarnación Mendoza. His brothers were Juana Carolina, Andrés María, Nicolás, José Arístides, Darío, Horacio, José Nicolás, Virgilio and Ovidio Morla Mendoza. He has held important positions including President of the Council of Guayaquil, Governor of Guayas, Consul of Bolivia, Chairman of the National Philanthropic Exhibition Committee, President of the Society, Patron of the Guayaquil Fire Brigade, Shareholder of the Bancos del Ecuador, Comercial y Agrícola y Territorial , President of the Municipal Post Office, Director of the Savings Bank, Minister of Public Works, Agriculture and Charity, Owner of Boats and Steamers, Founder of the Club de la Unión de Guayaquil , Member of the Executive Commission for the construction of the Columna a los próceres del 9 de Octubre (it) .

Around 1887, Homero Morla Mendoza acquired from Dr. Modesto Jaramillo the sugar factory and the Hacienda in chobo and made many modifications to the estate and at the sugar factory, which he named in honor of his wife Luz Maria Morla Franco (1846-1947) Luz Maria was. He built a beautiful country house for which he brought some of the necessary building materials from France and Italy, such as B. the bronze posts of the fences that enclosed this property and the marble for the flooring.

The agricultural company Sociedad Agrícola Luz María acquired Luz María on June 16, 1937 from Mrs. Luz María Morla, but let the country house fall into disrepair.

Locomotives

There were three Decauville steam locomotives there:

No. Construction year design type Gauge Empty
weight		 Surname operator Remarks
Decauville № 131 June 1891 C n2t 600 mm 5 t Matilde Homero Morla Sugar Factory, Chobo Municipality, Cantón Yaguachi, Guayas Province , Ecuador Corte de la caña de azúcar, Ingenio Matilde, Yaguachi, Provincia de Guayas (Biblioteca Municipal de Guayaquil DF00000014003484) (cropped) .jpg
Decauville № 190 March 1895 B1 'n2t 600 mm 7.5 t San Nicolas Ingenio Luz Maria, Guayas Province , Ecuador Ingenio azucarero Luz María y locomotora Decauville, cantón Yaguachi, provincia de Guayas (Biblioteca Municipal de Guayaquil DF00000014003482) (cropped) .jpg
Decauville № 282 Oct. 1898 B1 'n2t 600 mm 5 t Luz Maria Ingenio Luz Maria, Guayas Province , Ecuador Ingenio 'Matilde' de Homero Morla, Cantón Yaguachi, parroquia Chobo, Guayas DL.jpg

Web links

Ingenio La Matilde

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Victor Hugo Vicuña, Ytalo Vázquez Barco and Roberto Moreira: Comercial Roxana, un aporte a la Cultura del Cantón Milagro - Milagro, 104 anos de Cantonizacion. Pp. 8-9.
  2. ↑ a b c La parroquia Chobo, Homero Morla Mendoza y su famosa casa de hacienda. 5th September 2016.
  3. ↑ a b c K. W. Clingan and Jeffrey G. Lanham: Decauville Steam Locomotives: A Works List. Industrial Railway Society, 1992, ISBN 0-901096-64-4 , 66 pages.
  4. ↑ a b c Steam in the Americas 2019.
  5. ↑ Diego Balarezo Pino: División Política del Cantón Milagro.
  6. ^ François Gressin, Liliane Sekula et Daniel Wurmser: Locomotive 021-T du type 6. La San Nicolas de sucrerie Luz Maria de Chobo (Equateur) apparent a ce type.
  7. ↑ Guayaquil, Ecuador.

Coordinates: 2 ° 8 ′ 22.1 ″  S , 79 ° 38 ′ 1.6 ″  W.