Arteaga

Estancia Margarita Heber, known as Parada Arteaga, is a high conservation value area located in the department of Florida, 150 kilometres north of Montevideo. It is what remains of a 30,000-hectare cattle empire founded in 1825 by the Briton John Jackson, an establishment that was key to the development of livestock farming in the area. After the death of Margarita Heber in 1922, her husband Juan José de Arteaga built the main house and the sheds, and designed the 60-hectare park to fulfil the dreams she had for the place. Over the years it became a "large little village" with its own school, where hundreds of families lived and worked. The homestead includes the family's buildings, as well as sheds, a rural school and the original park. Although it is not the focus of this area, we share some information about the species recorded here.