Hacienda Citincabchén

Hacienda Citincabchén
Hacienda Citincabchén
Private Property / Tourist destination
	Entrance Hacienda Citincabchén, Yucatán.
	Hacienda Citincabchén Location in Mexico
	Coordinates: 20°31′04″N 89°32′06″W / 20.51778°N 89.53500°W
Country	Mexico
Mexican States	Yucatán
Municipalities	Municipality of Chapab
Time zone	UTC−6 (CST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC−5 (CDT)
Postal code	97857
Area code	997

Hacienda Citincabchén is located in the Chapab Municipality in the state of Yucatán in southeastern Mexico. It is one of the properties that arose during the nineteenth century henequen boom.

Toponymy

The name (Citincabchén) is a word from the Mayan language meaning "I only like honey".^[3] In 1910 the name changed from Citincabchén to Cituncabchén and then in 1921 to Citilcalchén, before changing to Citincabchén in 1930.

How to get there

The puebla, and hacienda are located halfway between Muna and Tekit approximately 68 km south of Mérida, Yucatán.

History

There was a henequen hacienda at the site which was part of a labor dispute heard in the 1916 Tribunals of the Revolution hearings under Governor Salvador Alvarado.^[4]

Demographics

According to the 2005 census conducted by the INEGI, the population of the city was 817 inhabitants of whom were 423 men and 394 were women.^[5]

Population of Citincabchén by year
Year	1900	1910	1921	1930	1940	1950	1960	1970	1980	1990	1995	2000	2005
Population	383	387	343	386	344	390	459	535	566	732	744	743	817

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.
^ "Citincabchén". Gobierno del Estado de Yucatán (in Spanish). Mérida, Mexico: Gobierno del Estado de Yucatán. Retrieved 8 May 2015.
^ Blouin Jr., Francis X. (editor); Rosenberg, William G. (editor) (2005). Archives, Documentation, and Institutions of Social Memory: Essays from the Sawyer Seminar (1st pbk. ed.). Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. pp. 311–312. ISBN 978-0-472-11493-1. Retrieved 8 May 2015. {{cite book}}: |first1= has generic name (help)
^ "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.