title: Hope Place
text: # Hope Place
  
  51°50′42″S 59°01′05″W﻿ / ﻿51.845°S 59.018°W﻿ / -51.845; -59.018
  
  Hope Place (known in Spanish as Valle Esperanza) was a small settlement in Lafonia in East Falkland. It was set up in 1846, by Samuel Lafone, a British-born Montevideo merchant, on the south shores of Brenton Loch. It was mainly populated by Uruguayan gauchos brought in from continental South America. The area is now abandoned.
  
  