Pedro Luro

Pedro Luro was born in Gamarthe, France on March 10, 1820 and died in Cannes, France on Feb 28, 1890. He immigrated to Argentina in 1837 and worked in a 'saladero,' a manufacturing facility designed to produce salted and dried meat, as a rural peasant and passenger. He was a proponent of Mar del Plata and of transitioning the territory of La Pampa into a province. Furthermore, he colonized lands in the middle and south of the Buenos Aires province until the Río Negro.

His family composed of his wife and ten children. Two of his children died at a young age.

References

• Pisani, Adriana Historias del Salado y la Bahía, Ed. Dunken ISBN 9870219896
• Fernández, María Inés Las inversiones francesas en la Argentina, 1880-1920, Ed. Biblos, ISBN 9507862269