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The book's author was requested by Financiera Aceptaciones S.A. (a finance company from Mexico's Banco Serfin), to publish this work for the Mexican public due to the interest of the Mexican Academic circles, it was inspired by his own thesis "Haciendas de Jalisco y aledaños: fincas rústicas de antaño, 1506–1821", a 270 pages work that was made to obtain a Master of Arts degree in Latin ...
The haciendas in the Valley of Ameca comprise a series of expansive land estates awarded to Spanish soldiers for their services in the military during the conquest of New Spain in the late 1500s. [1] Although a great portion of these estates were built during the colonial period (1701–1821), some of them were inclusively built during the ...
Ricardo Lancaster-Jones y Verea, MA BE KHS (9 February 1905 – 20 January 1983 [1]) was a Mexican historian and scholar who made significant contributions toward the study of the haciendas of the State of Jalisco in the twentieth century. [2]
Jalisco's charro tradition is particularly strong in Los Altos. In Spain, a charro is a native of the province of Salamanca, especially in the area of Alba de Tormes, Vitigudino, Ciudad Rodrigo and Ledesma. [22] It's likely that the Mexican charro tradition derived from Spanish horsemen who came from Salamanca and settled in Los Altos de Jalisco.
The Santa Bárbara Hacienda dates from the 17th century, founded by the Guerra family. The original mansion from the same time as well as a mill, a 19th-century house and the area's rail station is on this property. [3] The San José de Los Sauces Hacienda was founded at the end of the 17th century by Captain José Guerra Gallardo. In the 19th ...
Hacienda San José de Miravalle is a former mezcal-producing hacienda [1] and currently a rural inactive community of the municipality of San Martín de Hidalgo in central Jalisco, Mexico. [2] During the early twentieth-century, the hacienda was known for its productivity of mezcal business until the Mexican agrarian reform and other uprisings ...
El Grullo is a town and municipality, in Jalisco in central-western Mexico. The municipality covers an area of 157.2 km 2. It is named for a color, used for horses and grass, called grullo, used as the name of an Hacienda established there: "La Hacienda del Zacate Grullo". As of 2005, the municipality had a total population of 21,825. [1]
These include the adjacent municipalities of Amatitlán, Magdalena, San Juanito de Escobedo, San Martín de Bolaños, San Cristóbal de la Barranca, Hostotipaquillo and, south of Tequila Volcano: Teuchtilán and Ahualulco de Mercado. The original land-subdivision of the region was delineated by the Agave-growing haciendas that are found throughout.