RINCON GRANDE
The settlement of Rincon Grande lies on the east shore and at the north end of Salvador Water. It very likely would have been sited there in the days of wild cattle hunting. Rincons are points of land where animals could be trapped. Salvador is opposite to the west and Port Louis and Johnson's Harbour are to its east.
Andrez Pitaluga, a gaucho who had risen to capataz of the gauchos who hunted the wild cattle for the Lafone Brothers, began to acquire Crown Grant land on his own behalf. In June 1861 he was licenced to occupy a station at Port Salvador for £5 and on 27th April 1864 for a further £5, he was first granted a licence to occupy a station at Rincon Grande. The station was 6,000 acres and stretched on the South East from the east side of Horse Shoe Bay. On 22 March 1865 he was granted a lease of a station at Rincon Grande for ten years (annual rent £10). He continued to develop the area despite opposition from the Falkland Islands Company. Andrez was married to Margaret McIntosh Edwards at Hope Place in 1850 or 1851. After his death in June 1878 his sons, Alexander and Harry continued to lease lands stretching as far as Cow Bay and Berkeley Sound and west to Fanning Head. Their land holdings scaled back to the two sections of Salvador (Gibralter Station) and Rincon Grande. By the 1930s Harry Pitaluga's sons Stan and Authur owned and managed Rincon Grande. They were succeeded by Authur's daughter Diana and in turn by Authur, their son. In 2018 Rincon Grande, the Estate of H J Pitaluga, had a population of 4 and was carrying 4981 fine wool sheep.
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Sources include: Falkland Rural Heritage- nationalarchives.gov.fk/Jane Cameron National Archives/ Land/ buildings, Joan Spruce with Natalie Smith, The Dictionary of Falklands Biography (including South Georgia) - Edited by David Tatham/ Nicholas Pitaluga, https://www.fig.gov.fk/agriculture/publications/farming-stastics/category/27-farming-statistics-2016-to-2020, nationalarchives.gov.fk/Jane Cameron National Archives
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Old house at Rincon Grande- Derek Lee