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A typical scene in the Chihuahua desert. The Sánchez Navarro ranch (1765–1866) in Mexico was the largest privately owned estate or latifundio in Latin America. At its maximum extent, the Sánchez Navarro family owned more than 67,000 square kilometres (16,500,000 acres) of land, an area almost as large as the Republic of Ireland and larger than the American state of West Virginia.
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 ...
Spanish and Mexican land grant California Ranchos now in Baja California state, México — originally within southern 19th century Alta California. Pages in category "Baja California Ranchos" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total.
None of the rancho grants near the former border, however, were made after 1836, so none of them straddled the pre-1836 territorial border. The result of the shifting borders is that some of the ranchos in this list, created by pre-1836 governors, are located partially or entirely in a 30-mile-wide sliver of the former Alta California that is ...
There were two types of estancias: estancias de ganado mayor (cattle and horse estancias) and estancias de ganado menor (sheep & goat estancias). Both types had to be square in shape, going from east to west. Cattle estancias had to be 1 league in length, on each side, or 5000 varas or 1750 hectares, approximately 4400 acres. While sheep and ...
Mexico 02 (2 Spanish leagues) Spanish; el ojo is eye, la agua is water: Los Angeles Rancho de los Palos Verdes: 1827 José L. Sepúlveda: Mexico 565 José L. Sepúlveda, et al. 31,629.43 acres (12,799.98 ha) June 22, 1880: 439 Spanish; el palo is a wooden stick; verde is green en Español: Rancho de Los Palos Colorados Los Angeles Rancho Paso ...
“In the interior provinces of Mexico, in the cold and temperate territories, the men of the countryside who carry out their jobs on horseback are given the name of «Rancheros», derived from the word Rancho that is applied to a small hacienda, or to a part of a large one that is divided into rancherias or ranchos. Those who carry out the ...
Rancho San Joaquín was granted in 1842 to José Andrés Sepúlveda, a famed Californio vaquero.. Rancho San Joaquin, the combined Rancho Cienega de las Ranas and Rancho Bolsa de San Joaquin, was a 48,803-acre (197.50 km 2) Mexican land grant in the San Joaquin Hills, within present-day Orange County, California.