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An estancia in Argentine Patagonia near the Andes.. An estancia or estância is a large, private plot of land used for farming or raising cattle or sheep. Estancias are located in the southern South American grasslands of Chilean and Argentine Patagonia, while the pampas, have historically been estates used to raise livestock, such as cattle or sheep.
The San Bernardino de Sena Estancia (also known as the San Bernardino Rancho or Asistencia) was a ranch outpost of Mission San Gabriel Arcángel in what is now Redlands, California, United States. It was built to graze cattle, and for Indian reductions of the Serrano people and Cahuilla people into Mission Indians. Over time, it fell into ...
Estancia was also the name of the houses or “cottages” where the vaqueros (cowherds) would gather. [60] Hacienda Atenco, in the Toluca Valley, the oldest operating cattle ranch in the world, renowned for its fighting bulls, founded in 1528.
This is a list of ranches and sheep and cattle stations, organized by continent. Most of these are notable either for the large geographic area which they cover, or for their historical or cultural importance.
Estancia Moat is a large farm in southern Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego facing Beagle Channel. It is the southernmost cattle farm in the World. [ 1 ] Estancia moat is connected by road to Estancia Harberton and Ushuaia .
Bowers said the X-Cross-X ranch expects to lose at least 250 of the 1,000 cattle it had on three area ranches, either from burns or smoke inhalation. “We were right in the middle of calving ...
In Chile, sheep farming expanded from the Strait of Magellan to the area around Última Esperanza Sound where in 1893 that the first estancia was established. [11] Attempts to establish a cattle farming business by entrepreneur Daniel Cruz Ramírez around 1899 in Muñoz Gamero Peninsula failed given the humid climate and swampy terrain. [12]
The cattle have to have water, and the cattle come first.” She added that it was an example of how Holtorf was the “only non-politician of the top four candidates”, calling his service in ...