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Lo de Urriza. Pampas Museum
An 1887 general store in Cañada de Rocha, turned into a museum about the pampas: its nature, its history and its people.
Why a Pampas Museum?
The whole pampas as its subject
The pampas region holds everything the museum wants to tell: one of the largest and most fertile plains in the world, its landscapes, its prehistoric and historic eras, and the great cultural diversity it supports.
That diversity comes from the customs and knowledge of Indigenous peoples and of everyone who came to settle the region from Spanish colonization onward.
Cristóbal Urriza's store
Around 1887, when the Buenos Aires to Pacific railway was laid, plot 69 of the former Estancia de la Virgen passed to Basque immigrant Cristóbal Urriza. He built his house and a general store with a bar where the road to Carlos Keen meets the tracks.
When Carlos Keen grew and many merchants moved there, Urriza stayed in the Cañada and kept the store running. Today it is the museum.
What's preserved
Family house · General store · Bar · Windmill · Stable · Dovecote
The natural grounds
Tala trees, grasslands and a pond with native plants and endangered species, such as the tala orchid, which we protect in its habitat.
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Help restore the museum and its natural surroundings
Your gift restores the store's historic buildings, brings 4,000 objects to life and protects the native plants and endangered species on the grounds.