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 British-born 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.

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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.