Hacienda Yaxcopoil could be a city and hacienda settled close to metropolis United Mexican States, within the Municipality of Umán, Yucatán. Hacienda Yaxcopoil dates back to the seventeenth century, the name Yaxcopoil suggests that “the place of the inexperienced besieging trees” within the Yucatec Maya language, one in every of that still stands before of the hacienda.
The Hacienda represents the history of 3 nice amounts within the Yucatán Peninsula: the pre-Columbian period (there area unit ruins nearby), the Spanish colonial amount, and therefore the boom years of henequen cultivation throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.
Hacienda Yaxcopoil was once thought-about one in every of the foremost vital rural estates within the Yucatán. The complete property at once it absolutely was at its largest lined twenty two,000 acres (89 km²). It operated initial as a spread and later as a henequen plantation. Over time, because of continuous political, social and economic changes, the estate has been reduced to but third of its original size.
Inside the hacienda, besides several original items of article of furniture, area unit 2 murals showing Don Donaciano García Rejón and his partner Doña Mónica Galera. The workplace contains books, maps, documents, and different collections that kind a part of the archives of Yaxcopoil. These archives are preserved dependably and area unit obtainable to valid researchers.
Hacienda Yaxcopoil conjointly a healthy machine house, or casa DE maquina, wherever the henequen shredding machines (planta desfibradora) were accustomed render fibers from the henequen plant. The room has been maintained in condition with a a hundred HP (75 kW) German diesel engine created by Körting (Hannover) in 1913. The engine was used till 1984, once the assembly of henequen fiber within the hacienda concluded, once quite a century operative.
Hacienda Yaxcopoil has been preserved however not restored, and currently operates as a deposit, yet as a location for pic and film shoots. There’s conjointly a guest house on the property which will be rented for overnite keep.
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