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At the end, each nation had ceded an equal area of land (2,560.5 acres (10.362 km 2)) to the other. The Chamizal Treaty of 1963, which ended a hundred-year dispute between the two countries near El Paso, Texas, transferred 630 acres (2.5 km 2) from the U.S. to Mexico in 1967. In return, Mexico transferred 264 acres (1.07 km 2) to the U.S.
Ejido in Cuauhtémoc. An ejido (Spanish pronunciation:, from Latin exitum) is an area of communal land used for agriculture in which community members have usufruct rights rather than ownership rights to land, which in Mexico is held by the Mexican state.
Communal land grants were also made to Pueblos for the lands they inhabited." [1] The majority of the land area within grants was designated as common land for residents. Common land was mostly used for grazing cattle and sheep and harvesting timber. Smaller acreages within the grants were devoted to irrigation agriculture and home sites.
Parts of the United States are sometimes referred to as Old Mexico. California, formerly The Californias; New Mexico, formerly Nuevo México, itself sometimes referred to as “Old New Mexico” Pueblos, namesake of Nuevo México, their advanced trading network once connected with the Valley of Mexico, their network became part of El Camino Real
The Maxwell Land Grant, also known as the Beaubien-Miranda Land Grant, was a 1,714,765-acre (6,939.41 km 2) Mexican land grant in Colfax County, New Mexico, and part of adjoining Las Animas County, Colorado. This 1841 land grant was one of the largest contiguous private landholdings in the history of the United States.
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The Mormon colonies in Mexico are settlements located near the Sierra Madre mountains in northern Mexico which were established by members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) beginning in 1885. [1]: 86–99 The colonists came to Mexico due to federal attempts to curb and prosecute polygamy in the United States.