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located in north Uruguayan hill country, traditionally sheep and extensive cattle land, nowadays often being converted to forestry (eucalyptus), soils of below average productivity, however decent pasture, mostly improved pasture (April 2007). creek. Casco (estancia’s buildings) from 1790’s or earlyer, as shown on photos, staffs quarter, barn, workshop. Cattle installations, partly of similar historic value like the fieldstone corral. Located 400 (road km NNE of Montevideo (of which 370 km is paved road). Might be most ancient Casco Estancia for sale in Uruguay, one of the very few estates really dating back to Uruguay’s spanish colonial times (1750’s-1820’s) , having been an estancia founded by the Jesuitas, later being a spanish royal mail stage post and still later having witnessed its share of Uruguayan history. |