What Are Gaucho Ranches Called

Large, private plot of country used for farming or cattle-raising

An estancia is a large, private plot of land used for farming or raising cattle or sheep. Estancias in the southern South American grasslands, the pampas, have historically been estates used to raise livestock, such as cattle or sheep. In Puerto Rico, an estancia was a farm growing frutos menores ; that is, crops for local sale and consumption, the equivalent of a truck farm in the United States.^[one] In Argentina, they are large rural complexes^[2] with similarities to what in the United states is called a ranch.

History [edit]

In the early Caribbean territories and Mexico, holders of encomiendas acquired country in the expanse where they had access to Indian labor. They needed on-site Hispanic supervisors or labor bosses called estancieros . In Mexico, multiple estancias owned by the same individual could exist termed a hacienda.^[3] The term estancia is used in various ways in Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, southern Chile and southern Brazil. The equivalent in other Spanish American countries would be hacienda.

During the first centuries of Castilian colonial rule, the Spanish introduced cattle into the colonies for livestock. In the peripheral areas of northern Mexico and the southern part of South America, these animals roamed gratis; settlers conducted periodic raids to catch and slaughter them. In the 19th century stationary ranching ventures started to class in the pampas, with permanent buildings and marked livestock that clearly defined ownership. They were called estancias, the term indicating the stationary, permanent graphic symbol.

The estancia's ranch worker on horseback in Argentina, the gaucho, has similar status in national folklore and identity to the cowboy of North America. Since the late 20th century, agriculture has intensified as an industry; landowners accept frequently shifted from livestock to crop farming in the pampas of Argentine republic and Uruguay, due to the region's high soil fertility.

A pocket-sized number of estancias in Argentine republic and Uruguay, as well as in Paraguay or Chile, especially those with historic architecture, have been converted into guest ranches chosen paradores.

Several cities and villages, mainly just not exclusively in Latin America, developed from such estancias and are named appropriately, for example:

Estância in Sergipe land, Brazil
Estancia El Brete, Salta Province, Argentine republic
Estancia, Iloilo in the province of Iloilo, Philippines.

California mission estancias [edit]

Many California missions in North America had separate farms and ranchos associated with them. These were known as California mission estancias, which were dissimilar from the California ranchos, based on land grants to individuals.^[iv]

In Puerto Rico [edit]

An estancia, during Spanish colonial times in Puerto Rico (1508^[5]–1898),^[a] was a plot of land used for cultivating frutos menores (minor crops).^[6] That is, the crops in such farms were produced in relatively small quantities and thus were meant, non for wholesale or exporting, but for local, island-wide sale and consumption.^[vii] Some such frutos menores were rice, corn, beans, batatas, ñames, yautías, and pumpkins;^[8] among fruits were plantains, bananas, oranges, avocados, and grapefruits.^[9] A subcontract equipped with industrial mechanism used for processing its crops into derivatives such as juices, marmalades, flours, etc., for wholesale and export was not called an estancia, merely instead was called a hacienda.^[8] Near haciendas produced sugar, coffee and tobacco, which were the crops for export.^[eight] Some estancias were larger than some haciendas, but more often than not this was the exception and not the norm.^[10]

Notes [edit]

^ Later on the change of sovereignty in 1898 from Spain to U.s., and the ensuring industrialization and development of a manufacturing- and services-based order, Puerto Rican estancias gradually diminished to almost not-real.

References [edit]

^ Guillermo A. Baralt. Buena Vista: Life and Work on a Puerto Rican Hacienda. Chapel Hill, NC: Academy of North Carolina Press. 1999. p. 150 (notation ane).
^ Brown, Jonathan C. A Socioeconomic History of Argentina, 1776-1860,(Cambridge, England, 1979).
^ James Lockhart and Stuart Schwartz, Early Latin America: A History of Colonial Spanish America and Brazil, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983, pp. 69-71.138
^ "Mission Trail Today - Mission Asistencias and Estancias". U.S. Mission Trail. Retrieved 2015-06-17 .
^ Guaynabo, Puerto Rico. Accessed nine July 2019.
^ Guillermo A. Baralt. Buena Vista: Life and work in a Puerto Rican Hacienda, 1833-1904. Translated from the Spanish by Andrew Hurley. (Originally published in 1988 by Fideicomiso de Conservación de Puerto Rico as La Buena Vista: Estancia de Frutos Menores, fabrica de harinas y hacienda cafetalera.) 1999. Chapel Hill, North Carolina, The states: Academy of N Carolina Press. p. iii. ISBN 978-0-8078-4801-2
^ Guillermo A. Baralt. Buena Vista: Life and work in a Puerto Rican Hacienda, 1833-1904. Translated from the Spanish by Andrew Hurley. (Originally published in 1988 past Fideicomiso de Conservación de Puerto Rico as La Buena Vista: Estancia de Frutos Menores, fabrica de harinas y hacienda cafetalera.) 1999. Chapel Colina, North Carolina, United states: University of N Carolina Printing. p. 1. ISBN 978-0-8078-4801-2
^ ^a ^b ^c Guillermo A. Baralt. Buena Vista: Life and piece of work in a Puerto Rican Hacienda, 1833-1904. Translated from the Spanish by Andrew Hurley. (Originally published in 1988 past Fideicomiso de Conservación de Puerto Rico equally La Buena Vista: Estancia de Frutos Menores, fabrica de harinas y hacienda cafetalera.) 1999. Chapel Loma, North Carolina, U.s.: University of Northward Carolina Press. p. i. ISBN 978-0-8078-4801-ii
^ Eduardo Neumann Gandia. Verdadera y Autentica Historia de la Ciudad de Ponce: Desde sus primitivos tiempos hasta la época contemporánea. San Juan, Puerto Rico: Instituto de Cultural Puertorriqueña. 1913. Reprinted 1987. p. 67.
^ Ivette Perez Vega. Las Sociedades Mercantiles de Ponce (1816-1830). Academia Puertorriqueña de la Historia. San Juan, PR: Ediciones Puerto. 2015. p. 389.ISBN 978-one-61790-056-3