Fray Bentos Industrial Landscape World Heritage Site

Official name

Fray Bentos Industrial Landscape | UNESCO

Country

Uruguay | Map

Continent

South America

Location

-33.1177° Lat, -58.3316° Lon | Map

Code

1464

Time Zone

America/Montevideo (-03, -0300)

Current Time

Category

Cultural

Description

Inscribed 2015. 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.