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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.
Rancho San Antonio de Padua: 1839 Juan Alvarado: Juan Prado Mesa: 3,542 acres (1,433 ha) 275 ND, 354 ND, 366 ND, 368 ND, 378 ND, 383 ND Los Altos: Santa Clara: Refugio: 1839 Juan Alvarado: María Candida, Jacinta, and María de los Angeles Castro 12,147 acres (4,916 ha) 275 SD, 286 SD Santa Cruz: Santa Cruz: San Francisco: 1839 Juan Alvarado ...
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 origin of this rancho is obscure, but was one of the earliest ranchos established around San Diego. It is mentioned in a report in 1828, with the various ranchos of the San Diego region, Pennasquitos, de la Nación (then the rancho of the Presidio of San Diego), San Ysidro, El Rosario and Temescal. Among them is also mentioned that of San ...
Juan Miguel Anzar was the grantee of Rancho Los Aromitas y Agua Caliente in 1835. Juan Miguel Anzar (-1852) married María Antonia Castro. When Juan Miguel Anzar died in 1853, he held title to Rancho Los Aromitas y Agua Caliente, Rancho Santa Ana y Quién Sabe, Rancho Real de los Águilas and Rancho Los Carneros. His widow, María Antonia ...
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.
The historic Spanish and Mexican Ranchos in Santa Cruz County, California Further information: Ranchos of California and List of Ranchos of California Pages in category "Ranchos of Santa Cruz County, California"
Rancho Punta de los Reyes was a 13,645-acre (55.22 km 2) Mexican land grant in present day Marin County, California, given in 1836 by Governor Nicolás Gutiérrez to James Richard Berry. [1] The grant was east of Rancho Las Baulines and south of Rancho Tomales y Baulines .