La Chonita Hacienda
La Chonita is a 200 + year old former hacienda which is still a working Theobroma cacao, cacao and sugar cane farm along with some tourist services. It is located in the Mexican state of Tabasco and part of the Cacao Route that the state promotes. While it is much smaller than it was before the Mexican Revolution, it still produces cacao and sugar cane along with organic earthworms for composting. The former main house for the hacienda is now a youth hostel and dormitory for students and the site provides a number of other tourism services. History The hacienda’s establishment has been dated to the year 1800, but little has been written about it. Oral tradition states that it was originally called La Chona in reference to the hundreds of acres of lands that originally belonged to it. In the 19th century, the hacienda was the property of the Cruces family, with the first known owner being Benito Cruces, the father of Santiago Cruces Zentella, the governor of Tabasco in the 1870s. ...
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