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Land reform in Mexico. Hacienda de San Antonio Coapa and a train, by José María Velasco (1840—1912). Before the 1910 Mexican Revolution, most land in post-independence Mexico was owned by wealthy Mexicans and foreigners, with small holders and indigenous communities possessing little productive land. During the colonial era, the Spanish ...
Ejido in Cuauhtémoc. An ejido ( Spanish pronunciation: [eˈxiðo], from Latin exitum) is an area of communal land used for agriculture in which community members have usufruct rights rather than ownership rights to land, which in Mexico is held by the Mexican state. People awarded ejidos in the modern era farm them individually in parcels and ...
According to the Land Report's 2022 ranking of the top 100 land holders in the U.S., Kelley owns 1 million acres of American ranching land in Texas, Florida and New Mexico, which ranks him as America's ninth-largest private land owner. His landholdings have decreased after he sold several Texas ranches, including 49,723 acres in San Jacinto and ...
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Land grants by the Spanish and Mexicans between 1692 and 1846 numbered 291 in New Mexico, four partly in New Mexico and partly in Colorado, and three in Colorado. The land area of grants totaled tens of thousands of square miles. "The two major types of land grants were private grants made to individuals, and communal grants made to groups of ...
Although silver mining brought many Spaniards to Mexico and silver was the largest single export from New Spain, agriculture was extremely important.There were far more people working in agriculture, not only producing subsistence crops for individual households and small-scale producers for local markets, but also commercial agriculture on large estates to supply Spanish cities.
The Sangre de Cristo Land Grant is in the San Luis Valley. It is approximately 55 mi (89 km) in north-south distance from near Blanca Peak, 4,374 m (14,350 ft) in elevation, in Colorado to northern New Mexico. The grant is about 30 mi (48 km) wide. The eastern border is the crest of the Culebra Range of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains which ...
Enrique Creel (1854–1931), Porfirian Governor of Chihuahua from 1904 to 1906 and again from 1907 to 1911. He was the son of Reuben Creel, once the US Consul in Chihuahua, and became son-in-law of Don Luis Terrazas by virtue of marriage to his daughter (Reuben Creel and Luis Terrazas were married to sisters of the wealthy Cuilty family whose ...