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Farmland in Río Negro

Río Negro is the large-block market. Few properties change hands here, but each one is substantial.

Avg price 2025 5,138 USD/haTraded 2025 18,180 haLand use Industrial-scale cropping, forestry, cattle

USD per hectare · DIEA 2025Spread, most to least expensive department 4.2×

National average 4,178

Colonia9,707+19.7 %Soriano7,964−7.6 %San José6,842+5.1 %Canelones6,492−5.7 %Maldonado5,647−2.0 %Florida5,265+12.3 %

Río Negro5,138−9.0 %

Flores4,667−11.7 %Durazno4,032−17.5 %Rocha3,839+22.3 %Lavalleja3,736+5.0 %Treinta y Tres3,384+6.9 %Cerro Largo3,194−10.7 %Rivera3,074−10.5 %Paysandú3,047−17.6 %Salto2,886+4.0 %Tacuarembó2,720−10.7 %Artigas2,300−0.5 %

Bar length and order follow the official annual figures. Percentage: change against 2024.

Aerial over a mosaic of fieldsDaniel Pereyra Collazo · Public domain

Traded 202518,180ha

LocationLitoral, on the Río Uruguay

Land useIndustrial-scale cropping, forestry, cattle

The price

The 2025 average was USD 5,138 per hectare, 9 % below the previous year. Even after that fall, Río Negro remains among the country's six most expensive departments.

The number that matters here

44 contracts, 18,180 hectares. That is a mean parcel of 413 hectares, the second highest in Uruguay. For comparison, Canelones sits at 33.

Río Negro is agro-industrial. Large-scale cropping in soy, wheat and barley, plus forestry and the pulp mill near Fray Bentos as an industrial offtaker. Buying here usually means buying a finished operation rather than land to assemble.

What a thin market means

Few transactions cut both ways. Serious properties trade here, but suitable supply appears irregularly. For a buyer that means allowing lead time and being ready to decide when the right property appears, rather than waiting for the next one.

Suits: buyers targeting operational scale on a multi-year horizon
Does not suit: small entry parcels, a short buying window

Sources

DIEA / MGAP: Serie „Precio de la Tierra" (Compraventas) ↗

Figures verified on 2026-07-27

Information is provided for information purposes only and does not constitute investment, legal or tax advice. Prices shown are averages from official statistics, not valuations of individual properties.

The series for this department

Prices actually paid per hectare, area traded and the number of contracts of sale, year by year.

Since2000
Peak6,264 2014
Low370 2001

Río Negro: Prices actually paid per hectare, area traded and the number of contracts of sale, year by year.
Year	USD/ha	Change	Hectares traded	Contracts
2000	577		13,837	43
2001	370	−35.9 %	33,667	63
2002	639	+72.7 %	21,914	52
2003	756	+18.3 %	67,520	86
2004	1,483	+96.2 %	77,269	136
2005	1,246	−16 %	74,830	122
2006	1,509	+21.1 %	67,622	82
2007	1,563	+3.6 %	59,640	133
2008	1,842	+17.9 %	44,697	77
2009	3,070	+66.7 %	25,061	54
2010	3,591	+17 %	26,301	59
2011	5,946	+65.6 %	20,441	47
2012	5,541	−6.8 %	14,745	44
2013	5,122	−7.6 %	11,688	36
2014	6,264	+22.3 %	12,609	25
2015	6,236	−0.4 %	6,608	23
2016	4,047	−35.1 %	7,394	17
2017	3,338	−17.5 %	5,156	16
2018	6,155	+84.4 %	1,814	11
2019	5,208	−15.4 %	10,832	26
2020	3,474	−33.3 %	9,884	28
2021	4,858	+39.8 %	10,549	25
2022	5,763	+18.6 %	14,631	35
2023	4,607	−20.1 %	12,083	29
2024	5,648	+22.6 %	13,036	34
2025	5,138	−9 %	18,180	44

Source: DIEA / MGAP, "Precio de la Tierra" series. Change against the previous year, computed from the same figures. Reconciled on 2026-07-27

The market report

Ten pages: what land costs in each of the 18 departments, what leasing yields, what a purchase adds on top, and the rules under which a foreigner may buy at all. Every figure with a source and a verification date.

Prices for all 18 departments, from registered contracts of sale
Gross yield from the official lease and price series, unvarnished
Transaction costs with rates, and what they come to on an average parcel
The ceilings in Canada and Argentina, with the statutes behind them

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