Juan Ganzo Fernández

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☨ Juan Ganzo Fernández

Profession	zoo director
Personal details
Born	1872-10-05

Dead	1957-04-02

Residence
Address	Avenida 13 de Maio
Place	Porto Allegro
Country	Brazil

Locations
Title	owner 1913-1925
Location	at Porto Alegre Zoo Villa Diamela in Brazil

Biography details

Juan Ganzo , zoo director in Brazil

Ganzo was born * 1872-10-05 dead 1957-04-02 .

Juan Ganzo Fernández (Yaiza , 5th October 1872 — Florianópolis , 2 April 1957) was a Spanish electrician and entrepreneur rooted in Uruguay and, later, in Rio Grande do Sul.

It so happened that that area was a large farm where Juan Ganzo Fernández – the same man who founded the Riograndense Telephone Company – had lived with his family since 1910. In honor of one of his daughters, Ganzo named the farm “Villa Diamela”. The property faced Avenida 13 de Maio - currently Getúlio Vargas - extending to Praia de Belas, totaling approximately 3.8 hectares.

The house where he lived with his family faced Avenida 13 de Maio and the back of the property was used as a storage area for materials and a garage for his telephone company's vehicles.

In 1912, he decided to open a large zoo, in the middle of the farm.

In 1927, after selling the share control of Companhia Telefônica Riograndense to the Americans from IT&T, Ganzo ended the zoo's activities, as he was in negotiations to transfer to Santa Catarina where he would develop telephony in that state through Companhia Telefônica Catarinense.

The animals were all donated to zoos in Buenos Aires and Montevideo.
10th August 2020 by Ronaldo Marcos Bastos

Juan Ganzo Fernández is mentioned on 1 location pagesPorto Alegre Zoo Villa Diamela,

Reference list

References

Koehl, Dan, (2025). director Juan Ganzo in Brazil. Elephant Encyclopedia, available online retrieved 20 July 2025 at https://www.elephant.se/person.php?id=2241. (archived at the Wayback machine)

Sources used for this article is among others:

Enzo Henriques, Nova Iguaçu, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
https://ronaldofotografia.blogspot.com/2020/08/zoologico-villa-diamela-o-primeiro-de.html
https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Ganzo_Fern%C3%A1ndez
Franco, Sergio da Costa. Porto Alegre: Guia Histórico. EDUFRGS, 4ª ed., 2006, pp. 185-186

Selected publications

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