Hacienda Kancabchén de Valencia

Hacienda Kancabchén de Valencia
Hacienda Kancabchén de Valencia is located in Mexico
Hacienda Kancabchén de Valencia
Hacienda Kancabchén de Valencia
Location in Mexico
Coordinates: 20°43′29″N 88°51′02″W / 20.72472°N 88.85056°W / 20.72472; -88.85056
CountryMexico
Mexican StatesYucatán
MunicipalitiesSudzal
Time zoneUTC−6 (CST)
 • Summer (DST)UTC−5 (CDT)
Postal code
97678[1]
Area code991[2]

Hacienda Kancabchén de Valencia is located in the Sudzal 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 (Tunkás) and Hacienda Kancabchén Ucí.

Toponymy

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

History

Main article: Haciendas of Yucatán

In 1940, the name was changed from Kancabchén to Kancabchén de Valencia and it changed from the Municipality of Izamal to the Municipality of Sudzal.

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.[4] Figures before 1937 indicate populations living on the farm. After 1937, figures indicate those living in the community, as the remaining Hacienda Kancabchén de Valencia houses only the owner's immediate family.

According to the 2005 census conducted by the INEGI, the population of the city was 26 inhabitants, of whom 16 were men and 10 were women.[5]

Population of Kancabchén de Valencia by year
Year 1900 1910 1921 1930 1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 1995 2000 2005
Population 77 48 4 17 53 75 105 106 60 20 36 35 26

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. Travel Yucatan. Retrieved 29 April 2015.
  3. ^ "Hacienda Kancabchén". Haciendas en Yucatan. Gobierno del Estado de Yucatán. Retrieved 3 May 2015.
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ "Principales resultados por localidad (ITER)". Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía (in Spanish). Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía. 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.