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The Sociedad Explotadora de Tierra del Fuego (SETF; Spanish: Company for the exploration of Tierra del Fuego) was the greatest company of Chilean and Argentinian Patagonia. It was founded in 1893 and cultivated over 1 million hectares (2.5×106 acres) land for sheep farming and private factories like Puerto Bories to process, freeze and export sheep meat.
History
If was founded in 1893 by José Menéndez and Mauricio Braun. Its sheep farming culture contributed to the extermination of the indeginious Ona people of the Tierra del Fuego island.
Under the agrarian reform in the 1960s, the society changed its name in 1964 to Ganadera Tierra del Fuego S.A. and was dissolved officially in 1973.
References
Sociedad Explotadora de Tierra del Fuego Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA