Tourism, Hunting & Fishing - Department Telsen, Province of Chubut, Argentina

Department Telsen, Province of Chubut.
LOCATION	Department Telsen, Province of Chubut. Town La Fría. Route 58 frontage. 330 km west of the city of Trelew (Atlantic Ocean).
SIZE	14,944 hectares (36,927 acres)
DESCRIPTION	Sheep farm in the patagonian shrubby-grassy steppe. It has capacity for 4,000 sheep, but now they are fattening 3,500 Merino capons. During the last shearing 18,000 kg of wool were obtained (39.700 lb). The estate has a main house, house for the foreman, facilities for shearers, shearing shed, power plant, house for puestero (caretaker of a section of the estancia) and shed. Horse stalls and storage. 8 enclosures. Plentiful yearlong natural watering places. Quebracho corrals. Roofed crowding pens to shelter 500 sheep during shearing. Loading chute for sheep and for cattle. Bath with two drains.