These English installed a salting hose, with corrals, deposits for salty leathers and also a salt mine in the "Punta de la Salina", but they did not delineate the population to which they were compromised in the sales contract. Neither the salt mines nor the salting hose prospered. It was easier to take the cattle to the salting hoses of Montevideo and in the bay it did not exist an operative port of load...

In January of 1873 the successors of the Lafone asked for the defining and measuring of the lots of lands. In September the Ministry of Government orders that the "judicial mensura" practices. The surveyor Francisco Surroca carries out it in 1874 and the Public Work Main Directorate approved it in January of 1886, 14 years later, lapse in which an action of invalidity of the cession began on the part of the State, in 1880, since the town had not been constituted...

Solved the lawsuit between the State and the successors, the National Court of Property solves that it is time to parcel out the peninsula in January of 1886. The Executive authority the 29 of January of 1889, three years later, orders that it is come to divide to the Punta del Este in streets and blocks, divided in lots. The same surveyor Francisco Surroca is the one who presents a blue print dated in March of 1890, with the name of Ituzaingó. In September of 1890, the Direction from Public Works proceed with the drawing for the lots between the State and the heirs from the Lafone, 27 years after initiates the proceedings and 57 years after carried out the purchase. If we thought that now the proceedings are slow...

There were soon claims and transactions and the lots were begun to notarize just in 1910. Nevertheless, in the middle of the decade of the 90, it come on sale the lots according to the blue print of the Ituzaingó town, in the East Point. It started to populate and the first villas were constructed. It is to make notice that previously, in 1857, it was begun the construction of the lighthouse, that was inaugurated in 1860, and between 1885 and 1887, it is constructed the Customs building and the wharf. It remained isolated, the communication was made by a footpath between sand dunes, or in cart as there was not roads between Maldonado and Punta del Este, until 1911, when the road was constructed...

Zeballos and the Baron Rio Branco

In 1906 a commission of neighbors asked for the official erection of the Ituzaingó Town, this designation made possible the establishment of a Court of Peace, a police station, a school and the constitution of an auxiliary meeting of neighbors, everything that would contribute to benefit the rising population...

The Ituzaingó name was not capricious because it was the name it really was known the town and it was the name that appeared in the surveying blue prints. But this name was not made official...

The name of Punta del Este and non Ituzaingó, as initially it was projected, was due mainly to one Argentinean and one Brazilian Dr. Severe Estanislao Zeballos Juárez and Jose Maria de Silva Paranhos, Baron of Rio Branco...

Punta del Este was strongly developed by the Argentineans, at the end of the decade of the 70 and beginnings of the 80 of the XX century; a spectacular development of buildings and landscaping of the zone of the last 60 years was due to Argentine capital, and in smaller proportion to the Brazilian...

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