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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.
The hot springs are located on an ejido, the Ejido de San Cristóbal, a system of cooperative land ownership that restored rights to farmers and Mexico's Indigenous people to own their own land. During the 1970s, the site began to be developed through the construction of a road to the geothermal area, the caves, providing access to the hot ...
Approximately 275 hectares of land was redistributed under the ejido system. Another 3,338 hectares was awarded as ejido land by President Emilio Portes Gil. A system to irrigate these lands was sponsored by President Lázaro Cárdenas between 1937 and 1938, installing a pump to take water out of the drainage canal to irrigate lands here. [1]
For nine years in the late 19th century, Molina Enríquez was a notary in Mexico State, where he observed first-hand how the legal system in Porfirian Mexico was slanted in favor of large estate owners, as he dealt with large estate owners (hacendados), small holders (rancheros), and peasants who were buying, transferring, or titling land. [73]
The ejido system was presented as an important component of land reform in Mexico. In 1937, the government reapportioned 2,920 hectares (7,200 acres) adjoining the Molokan colony to 58 ejidatários. This settlement became known as the ejido El Porvenir (“things to come”). [25] [27]
The ejido system remained intact until the 1990s. However, during World War II , industry became the more important sector of the economy. Mexico’s rural population began to fall in the mid century, from 49.3% in 1960 to 25.4% in 2000.
Founded in 1613, Etchojoa is located in the southwest of the Mexican state of Sonora. ... Fifty percent of the land is part of the ejido system. Wheat, soy, corn, and ...
Following the end of the Mexican Revolution in 1917, Ejidos (state owned communal farmland for indigenous people and citizens), made up 70% of the land in Costalegre. [7] The Huichols are the primary indigenous group in this region. Both citizens and Huichol alike depend on the Ejido system to grow crops and hunt for food. [8]