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Hacienda Lealtad is a working coffee hacienda which used slave labor in the 19th century, located in Lares, Puerto Rico. [1]A hacienda (UK: / ˌ h æ s i ˈ ɛ n d ə / HASS-ee-EN-də or US: / ˌ h ɑː s i ˈ ɛ n d ə / HAH-see-EN-də; Spanish: or ) is an estate (or finca), similar to a Roman latifundium, in Spain and the former Spanish Empire.
José Ignacio Mariano Santiago Joaquín Francisco de la Torre y Mier (July 25, 1866 – April 1, 1918) was a Mexican businessman, politician and owner of a hacienda, the son-in-law of Porfirio Díaz, then president of Mexico, married to his eldest daughter, Amada Díaz. His nickname was "El Yerno de su Suegro" (His father-in-law's son-in-law).
The owner of the Hacienda Demiñho, which at times was a hacendado (male owner) and at times a hacendada (female owner), lived in the plantation's manor with his or her family. The owner's extended family could also live there, as well as a floating population of the family's friends and guests. Income generated by the hacienda was for the ...
The name comes from a slogan of the radical group Situationist International: "The Hacienda Must Be Built", from Formulary for a New Urbanism by Ivan Chtcheglov. [6] A hacienda is a large homestead in a ranch or estate usually in places where Colonial Spanish culture has had architectural influence.
The house itself was considered a landmark by the pilgrims on their way to the shrine. The manor itself was built in 1823, at the site of an hacienda dating to at least 1780–1789. The house was built for Giuseppe Marciani (transcribed into Spanish as José Marciani), founder and owner of the hacienda and an immigrant from Genoa, Italy.
Hacienda Mercedita was a 300-acre (120 ha) sugarcane plantation in Ponce, Puerto Rico, founded in 1861, by Juan Serrallés Colón. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Today Hacienda Mercedita no longer grows sugarcane and its lands are instead used for growing mangoes, grasses, landscape plants and palms, coconut palms, bananas, and seeds.
Hacienda Del Rio will undergo “a short dark period” before opening with the new owner’s vision. ‘Part of the fabric of Folsom’: Retired owner of Hacienda Del Rio honored for 32 years of ...
Ultimately, according to Chevalier, a hacienda was just a combination of cattle estancias and caballerías into one huge rural estate. [75] Hierarchy of a Mexican cattle hacienda: The Hacienda Administrator or Hacienda owner, the Mayordomo, and the Caporal, the captain of the vaqueros (cowherds) Mexican Vaquero (cowherd or cattle-herder)