World Heritage Identification Number: 1464
World Heritage since: 2015
Category: Cultural Heritage
Transboundary Heritage: No
Endangered Heritage: No
Country: 🇺🇾 Uruguay
Continent: Americas
UNESCO World Region: Latin America and the Caribbean
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A Journey through Time: The Fray Bentos Industrial Landscape - A Unique Testimony to Global Meat Production
The Fray Bentos Industrial Landscape, inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2015, offers a captivating glimpse into the history of global meat production. Situated on the banks of the Uruguay River, this industrial complex, nestled within the picturesque city of Fray Bentos, serves as a tangible reminder of the economic and technological transformations that took place during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
More to come…UNESCO Description of the World Heritage Site
Located on land projecting into the Uruguay River west of the town of Fray Bentos, the industrial complex was built following the development of a factory founded in 1859 to process meat produced on the vast prairies nearby. The site illustrates the whole process of meat sourcing, processing, packing and dispatching. It includes buildings and equipment of the Liebig Extract of Meat Company, which exported meat extract and corned-beef to the European market from 1865 and the Anglo Meat Packing Plant, which exported frozen meat from 1924. Through its physical location, industrial and residential buildings as well as social institutions, the site presents an illustration of the entire process of meat production on a global scale.
Encyclopedia Record: Fray Bentos
Fray Bentos is the capital city of the Río Negro Department, in south-western Uruguay, at the Argentina-Uruguay border, near the Argentine city of Gualeguaychú. Its port on the Uruguay River is one of the nation's most important harbours. The city hosts the first campus of the Technological University, beside the historically relevant industrial complex Anglo, a World Heritage Site, however, the Port is mainly famous for giving the name to the world renowned Fray Bentos pies.Additional Site Details
Area: 273.8 hectares
(iv) — Outstanding example of a type of building or landscape
Coordinates: -33.1177777778 , -58.3316666667
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