Hacienda Kancabchén Ucí

Hacienda Kancabchén Ucí
Principal park at Hacienda Kancabchén Ucí
Principal park at Hacienda Kancabchén Ucí
Hacienda Kancabchén Ucí is located in Mexico
Hacienda Kancabchén Ucí
Hacienda Kancabchén Ucí
Location in Mexico
Coordinates: 21°10′12″N 89°14′25″W / 21.17000°N 89.24028°W / 21.17000; -89.24028
CountryMexico
Mexican StatesYucatán
MunicipalitiesMotul
Time zoneUTC−6 (CST)
 • Summer (DST)UTC−5 (CDT)
Postal code
97440[1]
Area code991[2]

Hacienda Kancabchén Ucí is located in the Motul 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 de Valencia.

Toponymy

The name (Kancabchén) is a word from the Mayan language meaning the well of the red ground.[3] Ucí means seven,[4] thus the name of the place is the seventh well of the red ground.

How to get there

Take highway 176 northeast out of Mérida toward Mutul approximately 45 km (28 mi). The Kancabchén hacienda is located on the road to Motul toward to Telchac Pueblo, near a ranch called Kobchen, the only way to get there is to walk or take a bicycle the 4 km (2.5 mi) to the farm.[5]

History

Main article: Haciendas of Yucatán

Early records indicate that the owner of the property was Benita Palma Barroso de Campos,[6] who inherited 8 haciendas from her husband Roque Jacinto Campos Marrufo.[7]

In modern history, some sources show the owner of the hacienda as Aru, others show it as Domingo Ku. Until the 1950s, the farm was dedicated to the production and cultivation of henequen. It closed and the equipment was unused until the 1980s when part of it was purchased by an entrepreneur from Mérida, who planted trees to utilize the factory equipment for processing limes. The first harvests began in the 1990s and production was steady until a 2002 hurricane destroyed that season's crop. In 2003 Coca-Cola purchased the estate and began replanting lime trees. The first harvests began in 2010.[5]

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 (370 acres) to the former landowners for use as private property.[8] Figures before 1937 indicate populations living on the farm. After 1937, figures indicate those living in the community, as the remaining Hacienda Kancabchén Ucí houses only the owner's immediate family.

According to the 2005 census conducted by the INEGI, the population of the city was 96 inhabitants, of whom 55 were men and 41 were women.[9]

Population of Kancabchén Ucí by year
Year 1900 1910 1921 1930 1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 1995 2000 2005
Population 126 233 91 124 96 81 71 91 95 88 85 101 96

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. ^ "History of Uci". Ucí Yucatan. Uci, Yucatan, Mexico: Ucí Yucatan.
  5. ^ a b "History of the estate Kancabchén Uci". Kancabchén Uci (in Spanish). Kancabchén Uci, Mexico: Kancabchén Uci. 19 December 2010. Retrieved 3 June 2015.
  6. ^ Enciclopedia Yucatanense, Edición Oficial del Gobierno de Yucatán, pp 900-902, México, D.F., 1977.
  7. ^ "Título y Acción N° 377 a favor de Doña Benita Palma de Campos" (in Spanish). Mérida, Mexico: Secretaria de la Cultura y las Artes Departamento de Patrimonio Cultural. 1902. Retrieved 3 June 2015.
  8. ^ 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.
  9. ^ "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.
  • Kancabchén Ucí, Yucatán entrance
    Kancabchén Ucí, Yucatán entrance
  • Kancabchén Ucí, Yucatán park
    Kancabchén Ucí, Yucatán park