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Farmland in Tacuarembó

Tacuarembó is Uruguay's largest department by area and one of the cheapest ways to acquire land at meaningful scale.

Avg price 2025 2,720 USD/haTraded 2025 18,006 haLand use Extensive cattle, forestry

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.

Harvested field to the horizonGaap1 · CC BY-SA 3.0

Traded 202518,006ha

LocationNorth, centre to border region

Land useExtensive cattle, forestry

The price

Tacuarembó averaged USD 2,720 per hectare in 2025, down 10.7 % year on year and roughly 35 % below the national figure.

Capital efficiency, not soil rating

With 77 contracts across 18,006 hectares, the mean parcel is 234 hectares. The capital that buys about 100 hectares in Colonia buys over 350 here. That is the actual reason buyers look north.

What you give up is intensity. Soils over basalt and sandstone carry grazing and forestry, not intensive cropping. Output per hectare is lower and land is cheaper. Whether that trade works is decided by the operating plan, not by the price per hectare.

Distance as a cost line

The town of Tacuarembó is around 390 road kilometres from Montevideo. That affects freight to port and equally how often an owner based in Europe can realistically be on site. Both belong in the calculation before the low hectare price becomes convincing.

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
Peak3,493 2018
Low303 2003

Tacuarembó: 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	440		23,903	149
2001	387	−12 %	43,405	122
2002	319	−17.6 %	51,343	108
2003	303	−5 %	60,342	153
2004	465	+53.5 %	69,194	158
2005	763	+64.1 %	95,558	206
2006	741	−2.9 %	72,218	333
2007	1,301	+75.6 %	36,442	155
2008	1,771	+36.1 %	87,669	208
2009	1,617	−8.7 %	35,447	144
2010	1,782	+10.2 %	17,586	79
2011	2,322	+30.3 %	29,100	116
2012	2,189	−5.7 %	23,732	112
2013	3,269	+49.3 %	61,168	105
2014	2,240	−31.5 %	7,084	68
2015	2,687	+20 %	15,523	62
2016	2,643	−1.6 %	11,970	47
2017	2,836	+7.3 %	9,751	47
2018	3,493	+23.2 %	16,012	56
2019	2,873	−17.7 %	29,323	53
2020	3,166	+10.2 %	25,783	62
2021	2,326	−26.5 %	13,885	58
2022	2,825	+21.5 %	17,826	55
2023	3,095	+9.6 %	22,387	68
2024	3,045	−1.6 %	59,423	88
2025	2,720	−10.7 %	18,006	77

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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