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Dziuché
Dziuché is a town located in the Hoctún Municipality in the State of Yucatán in the southeast of Mexico. The town developed around an old hacienda. It had its splendor during the time of the henequen boom, between 1870 and 1920, and issued tokens which, due to their design, are of interest to numismatists. These tokens accredit the hacienda as the property of Juan Gamboa. Later, the hacienda was acquired by Raymundo Cámara Luján, a wealthy landowner who reactivated the sugarcane industry in the Yucatán peninsula; in the period 1909-1910, for example, the Dziuché Hacienda produced some 12,000 kilograms of sugarcane and some 10,000 kilograms of honey. In 1937, a socialist government headed by President Lázaro Cárdenas del Río expropriated the Haciendas from the traditional landowning families and transformed them into ejidos, an autonomous communal unit, with collective right to land ownership. After the government expropriated the land around the hacienda from t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hoctún Municipality
Hoctún Municipality (, in the Yucatec Maya language, Yucatec Maya Language: “where the stone is quarried or ripped”) is a Municipalities of Yucatán, municipality in the Mexico, Mexican List of states of Mexico, state of Yucatán containing (123.91 km2) of land and located roughly 45 km east of the city of Mérida, Yucatán, Mérida. History There are no records indicating the history of pre-Hispanic times for this area. After the Spanish conquest of Yucatán, conquest the area became part of the encomienda system. Doña Angela de la Fleguera Castillo was the encomendera in 1722 and was in charge of 269 native inhabitants. Yucatán declared its independence from the Spanish Crown in 1821 and in 1825, the area was assigned to the Beneficios Bajos region with its headquarters in Sotuta. In 1889, Hoctún acquired the category of Villa. Governance The municipal president is elected for a three-year term. The town council has seven aldermen, who serve as Secretary of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
