Hacienda Kancabchén (Tunkás)

Hacienda Kancabchén
Hacienda Kancabchén is located in Mexico
Hacienda Kancabchén
Hacienda Kancabchén
Location in Mexico
Coordinates: 20°55′13″N 88°48′53″W / 20.92028°N 88.81472°W / 20.92028; -88.81472
CountryMexico
Mexican StatesYucatán
MunicipalitiesTunkás
Time zoneUTC−6 (CST)
 • Summer (DST)UTC−5 (CDT)
Postal code
97650[1]
Area code991[2]

Hacienda Kancabchén is located in the Tunkás Municipality in the state of Yucatán in southeastern Mexico. It is one of the properties that arose during the nineteenth century henequen boom. There are numerous other properties of this name in the Yucatán including Hacienda Kancabchén in Baca, Hacienda Kancabchén (Halachó), Hacienda Kancabchén (Homún), Hacienda Kancabchén (Motul), Hacienda Kankabchén (Seyé), Hacienda Kankabchén (Tixkokob), Hacienda Kancabchén Ucí and Hacienda Kancabchén de Valencia.

Toponymy

The name (Kancabchén) is a word from the Mayan language meaning the well of the red ground.[3]

How to get there

Travel east out of Mérida towards Valladolid on México 180 approximately 90 km. Turn left and head north approximately 2 km to Hacienda Kancabchén.[4]

History

Main article: Haciendas of Yucatán

Demographics

All of the henequen plantations ceased to exist as autonomous communities with the agrarian land reform implemented by President Lazaro Cardenas in 1937. His decree turned the haciendas into collective ejidos, leaving only 150 hectares to the former landowners for use as private property.[5] Figures before 1937 indicate populations living on the farm. After 1937, figures indicate those living in the community, as the remaining Hacienda Kancabchén houses only the owner's immediate family.

According to the 2005 census conducted by the INEGI, there was no permanent population in the location.[6]

Population of Kancabchén by year
Year 1900 1910 1921 1930 1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 1995 2000 2005
Population 166 207 69 39 31 11 3 33 20 13 10 ? 0

References

  1. ^ "Consulta Códigos Postales". Servicio Postal Mexicano. Correos de México. Archived from the original on 28 July 2011. Retrieved 29 April 2015.
  2. ^ "Yucatan Mexico Telephone Area Codes". Travel Yucatan. Retrieved 29 April 2015.
  3. ^ "Hacienda Kancabchén". Haciendas en Yucatan. Gobierno del Estado de Yucatán. Retrieved 3 May 2015.
  4. ^ "Get Lat Long from Address 20°55′13"N, 88°48′53"W". LatLong. Retrieved 3 June 2015.
  5. ^ Joseph, Gilbert Michael (1988). Revolution from without : Yucatán, Mexico, and the United States, 1880-1924 (Pbk. ed.). Durham: Duke University Press. p. 292. ISBN 0-8223-0822-3. Retrieved 29 April 2015.
  6. ^ "Principales resultados por localidad (ITER)". Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía (in Spanish). 2010. Retrieved 30 April 2015.

Bibliography

  • Bracamonte, P and Solís, R., Los espacios de autonomía maya, Ed. UADY, Mérida, 1997.
  • Gobierno del Estado de Yucatán, "Los municipios de Yucatán", 1988.
  • Kurjack, Edward y Silvia Garza, Atlas arqueológico del Estado de Yucatán, Ed. INAH, 1980.
  • Patch, Robert, La formación de las estancias y haciendas en Yucatán durante la colonia, Ed. UADY, 1976.
  • Peón Ancona, J. F., "Las antiguas haciendas de Yucatán", en Diario de Yucatán, Mérida, 1971.