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The Main House was built in the colonial style with stone walls 1.8 meters thick and stone floors. The very high ceilings and arches of the corridor allowed the entry of horse-drawn carriages. [5] The powerhouse was the most important building of the estate during the henequen phase, as it was where the sisal fiber was processed into rope.
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One of Merida's twin mansions, known as the Cámara Houses or "Las Casas Gemelas" Cathedral of Mérida as it appeared in 2010 Mérida was founded in 1542 by the Spanish conquistadors , including Francisco de Montejo the Younger and Juan de la Cámara , and named after the town of Mérida in Extremadura, Spain.
The de la Cámara family gained prominence during the Colonial Period, becoming part of the Mexican nobility and major landowners in the Yucatán Peninsula. [6] During the 19th-century henequen fiber boom, they were part of an oligarchy controlling henequen production, trade, and regional politics, amassing substantial wealth and becoming among ...
Hacienda Katanchel is located in the Tixkokob Municipality in the state of Yucatán in southeastern Mexico. It is one of the properties that arose during the nineteenth century henequen boom. In the late 1990s, the property was restored and converted into a nature reserve and a resort.
The head of the municipality is Conkal, Yucatán. There are thirty-five population areas in the municipality, [3] among them, three haciendas Kantoyná, Santa María Rosas, and Xcuyún; and three ranches Los Reyes, San Antonio, and San Román. [1]
Dzemul Municipality (In the Yucatec Maya Language: “ravaged mound” is a municipality in the Mexican state of Yucatán containing 123.91 square kilometres (47.84 sq mi) of land and located roughly 47 kilometres (29 mi) northeast of the city of Mérida. [2]
The residents of Mérida petititioned for a port closer to the capital, and this was granted by Spanish royal decree on 13 February 1810. The new port of Sisal was founded in 1811, and has a late colonial era fortress, the "Fuerte de Santiago" which incorporates an old lighthouse. After Yucatán's independence from Spain commerce in the port ...