# Flores

**Flores declared 409,429 cattle on 30 June 2025, the 16th largest herd of Uruguay's 19 departments (+4.1% on 2024), 83,001 sheep, and 2.5% of the national milk.**

![Flores highlighted on a map of Uruguay's departments](https://cow-tools.sophia-labs.com/notebooks/departments/flores.png)

| 2025 | value | rank of 19 | change on 2024 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Cattle (beef + dairy) | 409,429 | 16 | +4.1% |
| of which dairy cattle | 18,843 | | |
| Sheep | 83,001 | 13 | -13.0% |
| Sheep share of cattle + sheep | 16.9% | | |
| Milk, litres | 56,347,358 | 8 | |
| Livestock land, ha | 407,512 | | |
| Cattle per livestock ha | 1.00 | 6 | |
| Land under sown pasture | 12.5% | 5 | |
| Beef herd: breeding cows + calves | 60.6% | 15 | |
| Beef herd: steers + fattening cows | 23.2% | 3 | |
| Offtake, 2024 → 2025 (inferred) | 67,201 (17.1%) | 12 | |
| Holders declaring beef cattle | 1,290 | | |
| Census areas with holdings | 12 | | |

## Neighbours

Flores borders [Durazno](https://cow-tools.sophia-labs.com/guide/department-durazno/index.md), [Florida](https://cow-tools.sophia-labs.com/guide/department-florida/index.md), [San José](https://cow-tools.sophia-labs.com/guide/department-san-jose/index.md), [Soriano](https://cow-tools.sophia-labs.com/guide/department-soriano/index.md). Computed from the Natural Earth outlines (departments sharing more than 5 km of boundary).

## In the notebooks

- [The national herd at a glance](https://cow-tools.sophia-labs.com/notebooks/national-herd/index.html) ([in the guide](https://cow-tools.sophia-labs.com/guide/notebook-national-herd/index.md)): How many animals Uruguay's farms declared in 2025, by species and by department, to the head.
- [Cattle and sheep, department by department](https://cow-tools.sophia-labs.com/notebooks/cattle-and-sheep/index.html) ([in the guide](https://cow-tools.sophia-labs.com/guide/notebook-cattle-and-sheep/index.md)): Where Uruguay is a sheep country and where it is a cattle country, and how one year's fall in sheep shows up on the map.
- [Dairy country](https://cow-tools.sophia-labs.com/notebooks/dairy-country/index.html) ([in the guide](https://cow-tools.sophia-labs.com/guide/notebook-dairy-country/index.md)): The cuenca lechera of Florida, San José and Colonia: how much milk, how many dairy cows, and which is the most intensive.
- [Breeders in the east, finishers in the west](https://cow-tools.sophia-labs.com/notebooks/herd-structure/index.html) ([in the guide](https://cow-tools.sophia-labs.com/guide/notebook-herd-structure/index.md)): What the mix of cows, calves and steers says about each department's place in the beef chain.
- [How hard the land is stocked](https://cow-tools.sophia-labs.com/notebooks/stocking-intensity/index.html) ([in the guide](https://cow-tools.sophia-labs.com/guide/notebook-stocking-intensity/index.md)): Cattle per hectare of livestock land, by department and by census area, and why it follows the sown pastures.
- [One year on, 2024 to 2025](https://cow-tools.sophia-labs.com/notebooks/year-over-year/index.html) ([in the guide](https://cow-tools.sophia-labs.com/guide/notebook-year-over-year/index.md)): What changed between two sworn declarations, department by department, with the data's own quality warnings read first.
- [The herd ledger](https://cow-tools.sophia-labs.com/notebooks/herd-ledger/index.html) ([in the guide](https://cow-tools.sophia-labs.com/guide/notebook-herd-ledger/index.md)): Balancing Uruguay's cattle like a set of books: births in, deaths and home slaughter out, and the 2.3 million head that must have left.
- [Finding other Uruguay data](https://cow-tools.sophia-labs.com/notebooks/finding-other-data/index.html) ([in the guide](https://cow-tools.sophia-labs.com/guide/notebook-finding-other-data/index.md)): Search the national open-data catalogue by meaning, pull the dataset it finds, and join it to the herd on the department spine: cattle per person.
- [Ask the agent](https://cow-tools.sophia-labs.com/notebooks/ask-the-agent/index.html) ([in the guide](https://cow-tools.sophia-labs.com/guide/notebook-ask-the-agent/index.md)): Start a personal agent over the herd data from Python, with your own OpenRouter key, and check its answer against the cube.

## Where these numbers come from

SPARQL over the graph `uruguay-cows` (DICOSE code 6, ISO 3166-2 UY-FS, Wikidata Q16578), from the 2025 sworn declarations (and 2024 for changes). Before this page was written, its cattle, sheep, milk and land figures were checked against the original CSVs for all 19 departments. Stock is PD_AD (animals on the holding). Offtake is births − deaths − home slaughter − the change in stock, so it includes cattle sold to other departments.

## Metadata

```json
{
 "@context": "https://schema.org",
 "@type": "AdministrativeArea",
 "name": "Flores",
 "identifier": [
  "DICOSE:6",
  "UY-FS"
 ],
 "sameAs": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16578",
 "containedInPlace": {
  "@type": "Country",
  "name": "Uruguay"
 },
 "additionalProperty": [
  {
   "@type": "PropertyValue",
   "name": "cattle (DICOSE, 30 June 2025)",
   "value": 409429
  },
  {
   "@type": "PropertyValue",
   "name": "sheep (DICOSE, 30 June 2025)",
   "value": 83001
  },
  {
   "@type": "PropertyValue",
   "name": "milk litres (DICOSE 2025)",
   "value": 56347358
  }
 ]
}
```

## Connected (the graph's wires)

- Borders: [Durazno](https://cow-tools.sophia-labs.com/guide/department-durazno/index.md), [Florida](https://cow-tools.sophia-labs.com/guide/department-florida/index.md), [San José](https://cow-tools.sophia-labs.com/guide/department-san-jose/index.md), [Soriano](https://cow-tools.sophia-labs.com/guide/department-soriano/index.md)

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The cow-tools guide, Departments: https://cow-tools.sophia-labs.com/guide/department-flores/ (this page for people) · the whole guide: https://cow-tools.sophia-labs.com/guide/index.md · in Sophia: the graph `cow-tools-guide`, document `department-flores` (MCP `read_document` at https://cow-tools.sophia-labs.com/mcp). CC BY 4.0, credit "cow-tools, Sophia Labs".