Loma Plata - Tourism

Tourism

Loma Plata is an important commercial and industrial center and has the necessary infrastructure to receive visitors: hotels, restaurants and access to several places of great tourist attraction, for example: Campo Maria, Laguna Capitan, Chaco Lodge and others.

The tourist office is situated in a traditional building on the main street, north of the cooperative's supermarket. It is open Mon-Fri 7am-11.30am & 2pm-6pm, Saturday7am-11.30am. The tourism representative is happy to give information about the places to visit in and around Loma Plata as well as giving tours. A very interesting and informative video about the colony, its inhabitants and development from the foundation in 1927 until today is available for tourists to watch.

Loma Plata has an excellent museum with an outdoor exhibit of early farming equipment and a typical pioneer house plus an outstanding photographic exhibit on the colony's history. Guided tours are given in German, Plattdeutsch,Spanish and English.

Guided tours are also given in the milk fabric Trebo for those interested in knowing how the production of dairy products is carried out.

Visits can also be arranged to the meat works, Frigochorti, where the cattle is slaughtered and the meat is packaged or used for sausage production. The visitor can follow the whole process through glass windows. Visits to the Frigochorti have to be arranged together with the tourist office in Loma Plata.

As for handicrafts, bags and hammocks they are made of Caraguatá Enlhet in the indigenous community of Pozo Amarillo, located 70 km southeast of downtown Loma Plata. In addition, there are exhibited works in palo santo wood.

The Rodeo Club Isla Po'i, which belongs to the breeders' association in Colonia Menno, 1984, seeks to improve the quality of livestock production in the area. Annually, June 12, there is an exhibition where the regional production is shown. The members of the association are also working in the recovery of lagoons through open channels to facilitate the drainage of water at times of lots of rain and to clean saline soils.

In the Experimental Isla Po'i Chacra, studies and experiments are carried out in different areas of agriculture: cotton, peanut, sesame, tomato, as well as explaining the process of tillage, crop rotation and others. It is experimenting with the different species of pasture for livestock feed, fodder and tolerable soil, climate and other factors for livestock production. It also works with fruit trees and ornamental plants and trees native to the Chaco for reforestation.