Hope Place

Hope Place (known in Spanish as Valle Esperanza) was a small settlement in Lafonia in East Falkland. It was set up in 1846, by Samuel Lafone, a Montevideo merchant, on the south shores of Brenton Loch. It was mainly populated by Uruguayan gauchos brought in from continental South America.[1] The area is now abandoned.

Location of Hope Place on the Islands

Falklands gauchos having mate at Hope Place - Saladero, East Falkland. Watercolour by Dale, manager of Hope Place in the 1850s.

See also

• Lafonia
• History of the Falkland Islands
• Origins of Falkland Islanders

References

1. Falkland Islands Timeline: A Chronology of events in the history of the Falkland Islands Archived 2007-10-06 at the Wayback Machine