Hacienda Kochol

Hacienda Kochol
Hacienda Kochol is located in Mexico
Hacienda Kochol
Hacienda Kochol
Location in Mexico
Coordinates: 20°37′12″N 90°09′34″W / 20.62000°N 90.15944°W / 20.62000; -90.15944
CountryMexico
Mexican StatesYucatán
MunicipalitiesMaxcanú
Time zoneUTC−6 (CST)
 • Summer (DST)UTC−5 (CDT)
Postal code
97804[1]
Area code997[2]

Hacienda Kochol is located in the Maxcanú Municipality in the state of Yucatán in southeastern Mexico. It is one of the properties that arose during the nineteenth century henequen boom. After a foreclosure in the 1950s and use for many years as a bank's storage facility, the building is uninhabitable and neglected.

Toponymy

The name (Kochol) is a word from the Mayan language meaning "mosquito".[3]

How to get there

From the south side of the Pereférico of Mérida, go south toward Campeche on highway 180, approximately 52 km to Maxcanú. Take Calle 15 west for approximately 15 km to Hacienda Kochol.[4]

History

Main article: Haciendas of Yucatán

Throughout the nineteenth century, the estate belonged to descendants of the Lara family.[5] Including Lara Ferré, Lara Bolio and Lara O´Horán.[6] In the late 1930s, Mercedes Lara transferred the property to her son, Luis O'Horán Lara. He lost the property in a foreclosure in the 1950s and it was purchased by the bank.[7] For many years after the foreclosure, the principal house was used as a storage facility by Banco Nacional de Crédito Rural (BANRURAL).[8]

Architecture

When the hacienda was functioning, the compound consisted of the main house, the chapel, the company store,[9] the foreman's home,[5] and the powerhouse, or building in which the machinery operated. All of the buildings were grouped around the rectangular principal park and the workers lived on the grounds in typical Maya-style houses.[9]

The principal house was reached either from a causeway from the nearby pueblo and the other from the north by way of the powerhouse. In typical colonial style, the main house had large porches. A span of arches, supported by stone columns flank the porch above which is featured a split pediment.[5]

The powerhouse features a similar style by is more austere than the main house. The building is divided into three parts. The center section features a double archway and pediment. The scraping machinery is located parallel to the building allowing passage of platforms to the storage elevator.[6]

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

According to the 2005 census conducted by the INEGI, the population of the city was 1498 inhabitants, of whom 762 were men and 736 were women.[11]

Population of Kochol by year
Year 1900 1910 1921 1930 1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 1995 2000 2005
Population 319 406 424 480 416 370 473 564 866 1131 1237 1270 1498

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. ^ Hutson, Scott R. (2010). Dwelling, identity, and the Maya : relational archaeology at Chunchucmil. Lanham: AltaMira Press. p. 155. ISBN 978-0-7591-1920-8. Retrieved 4 June 2015.
  4. ^ "Address 20°37′12"N, 90°09′34"W". Lat Long. Get Lat Long. Retrieved 4 June 2015.
  5. ^ a b c Dzib Pech, Jose Humberto (18 December 2013). "Hacienda Kochol". Haciendas de Yucatan (in Spanish). Mérida, Mexico: Haciendas de Yucatan. Retrieved 4 June 2015.
  6. ^ a b "Hacienda Kochol". Haciendas en Yucatan (in Spanish). Mérida, Mexico: Gobierno del Estado de Yucatán. Retrieved 4 June 2015.
  7. ^ Breglia, Lisa (2006). Monumental ambivalence: the politics of heritage (1st ed.). Austin: University of Texas Press. p. 153. ISBN 978-0-292-71427-4. Retrieved 4 June 2015.
  8. ^ Breglia (2006)", p. 150
  9. ^ a b Breglia (2006)", p. 149
  10. ^ 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.
  11. ^ "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.