Puerto de Frutos, Tigre,
Buenos Aires, Argentina
32 km separate the city from the Obelisk Tigre.
The process of colonization of these lands began with the second foundation of Buenos Aires by Don Juan de Garay. In a document dated October 24, 1580, contains a record of land distribution.
The party's name comes from an old story-hunting jaguars (American tiger) living in the area.
Over time these regions were populated by farmers who lived with their families from products that they grew and harvested.
In 1611, the council asked the administrator reports on farm land for growing wheat and it sends the names of fifteen farmers residing in the area. Thus was born the "village" which thereafter grew and strengthened socially and economically. His
great attraction is the Puerto de Frutos.
Login to Puerto de Frutos is installed in a different world, almost magical. Frutos
port of Tigre, was created in 1938 by initiative of Delta residents and farmers.
In 1983 he inaugurated the premises of the Handicrafts and day after day, continues to grow as particularly attractive because it has.
El Puerto de Frutos, is a must for those visiting Tigre. A tour of this highly picturesque, holds its surprises. Born as a market, where the inhabitants of the islands, selling fruits and vegetables harvested in their fields.
In their glory, was a place of great agitation, that horticultural production fruti Delta islands, supplied much of the greater Buenos Aires and its surroundings.
The port has three docks. From the first, daily excursions leave the Delta on catamarans.
In the central basin are concentrated-stock boats that supply the islanders with the most varied products. The last dock
discharged river timber ships arriving laden with trunks of willow and poplar forest islands from the Delta.
Within the port is the outdoor market where the streets are dressed in colors through the rustic fabrics. Furniture, ornaments and accessories manufactured in cane and rattan, delicious homemade sweets and honey, brilliant flowers and, of course, the full range of local fruits live together in harmony.
El Puerto de Frutos, houses an open air mall, which houses up for sale a variety of products made with materials from the region such as fruits, rattan, cane and wood.
view also allows carrying wooden boats brought from the forest islands, boats store catering to those living in the Delta and many other typical local boats.
Time passed and slowly the Puerto de Frutos was no longer a place to get fresh produce from the islands. And he turning in an almost purely artisanal. Today, very few boats and boats that offer fruits and vegetables, as it used to at first.
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