Hacienda Kankabchén (Tixkokob)

Hacienda Kankabchén
Hacienda Kankabchén
Private residence
	Entrance to Hacienda Kankabchén, Tixkokob, Yucatán
	Hacienda Kankabchén Location in Mexico
	Coordinates: 21°02′36″N 89°22′59″W / 21.04333°N 89.38306°W
Country	Mexico
Mexican States	Yucatán
Municipalities	Tixkokob
Time zone	UTC−6 (CST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC−5 (CDT)
Postal code	97473
Area code	991

Hacienda Kankabchén is located in the Tixkokob 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 Kancabchén (Tunkás), Hacienda Kancabchén Ucí and Hacienda Kancabchén de Valencia.

Toponymy

The name (Kancabchén) is a word from the Mayan language meaning the well of the red ground.^[3]

How to get there

At the east side of Mérida, from the Periférico, take Calle 65 approximately 19 km to Tixkokob. Then go 5 km north on Calle 18 to Hacienda Kankabchén.^[4]

History

Architecture

As is evident from photographs, the architectural structures have decayed and no habitable buildings remain.

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.^[5] Figures before 1937 indicate populations living on the farm. After 1937, figures indicate those living in the community, as the remaining Hacienda Kankabchén houses only the owner's immediate family.

According to the 2005 census conducted by the INEGI, there is no permanent population residing in the area.^[6]

Population of Kankabchén by year
Year	1900	1910	1921	1930	1940	1950	1960	1970	1980	1990	1995	2000	2005
Population	217	268	119	121	82	86	73	93	8	?	?	0	0

References

^ "Consulta Códigos Postales". Servicio Postal Mexicano. Correos de México. Archived from the original on 28 July 2011. Retrieved 29 April 2015.
^ "Yucatan Mexico Telephone Area Codes". Travel Yucatan. Travel Yucatan. Retrieved 29 April 2015.
^ "Hacienda Kancabchén". Haciendas en Yucatan. Gobierno del Estado de Yucatán. Retrieved 3 May 2015.
^ "21°02′36"N, 89°22′59"W". LatLong. Get Latitude Longitude. Retrieved 3 June 2015.
^ 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.
^ "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.