Workers' houses
With old porches.
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Pueblo Liebig is a small village on the Uruguay river near Colón that grew from 1903 around the factory of the Anglo-German Liebig's Extract of Meat Company, which turned an old meat-salting works into a large plant canning beef and beef extract and shipping them to Europe from its own river docks. At its height about thirty-five hundred people worked there day and night, earning it the nickname «the kitchen of the world». As European tastes and rules changed the factory declined, and the company left Argentina in 1980. But the village stayed almost as it was: rows of workers' houses with their porches, the English managers' homes with gardens, the tall chimney, the remains of the plant and docks, and tree-shaded streets, making it an open-air museum of the country's meat industry. Wandering is free, an audiovisual interpretation centre tells its story, and it pairs easily with Colón's river beaches and El Palmar National Park.
With old porches.
And factory remains.
The old docks.
On the Uruguay river, about 10 km north of Colón, Entre Ríos
Its factory canned beef and beef extract for Europe, with about 3,500 workers at its height.