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Yucatan Heritage Protection Project

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Need to cull this article. [1] Gives a lot of history and specifically states "The city of Merida has many vestiges of sisal haciendas having identified and registered 51, of which 48 have been declared Cultural Heritage Areas of the Municipality of Merida"SusunW (talk) 16:54, 1 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I also found a list of Haciendas which shows the strength of their powerhouses. Obviously the larger the powerhouse, the bigger the farm, so it may help determine importance of some of these. [2] SusunW (talk) 16:15, 3 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Moving discussion from my talkpage to here now that this article has been created

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Regarding other colonial haciendas of the Yucatan, these are bluelinked: Hacienda Cocoyoc and Hacienda San José Chactún but here are a bunch of redlinks which I could sandbox. Probably a template would be a nice addition; and maybe List of colonial haciendas in Yucatán.

Also found this: <ref name="Chardon1961">{{cite book|last=Chardon|first=Roland Emanuel Paul|title=Geographic Aspects of Plantation Agriculture in Yucatan|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=hpMrAAAAYAAJ|year=1961|publisher=National Academies|page=81|chapter=Chapter IV: Internal geographic characteristics of the henequen hacienda: specific case studies|id=NAP:11330}}</ref> --Rosiestep (talk) 03:54, 26 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I'm sure there is a better way to report this, but I don't know how, so this is what I have The blue links are to English pages, the Spanish links are numbered pastes of the page, since I didn't know how to imbed from the other wiki any other way.:

These I ran across while I was researching those:

Then I discovered these pages, wherein there are actual categories for the Yucatán haciendas: [77] [78]

The problems I see — some of these are input as just names (Chenkú), some as Hacienda (Hacienda Temozón) creating lots of unlinked articles as there don't appear to be redirects consistently. Some appear as sections in a locality, though most appear in their own articles. This is even happening on the English wiki, see Yaxcopoil not input as Hacienda Yaxcopoil, which will end up without files being linked if mentioned in other articles, IMO. SusunW (talk) 23:13, 26 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Rosiestep: Also wonder if there might be someone from the Korean wiki project who would be interested? I have always wondered what haciendas got those 1034 Koreans who were clandestinely sent to Yucatán to work at the haciendas. That's a fascinating story Korea denied them passports, a Japanese agent got a french diplomat to issue them about 80 died in route (originally there were like 1105 I think). Japan invaded Korea shortly after they landed so they were totally cut off from Korean help, didn't speak the language, indenture was not what they had been promised and they had no where to go or way to get back. Later about 300 went to Cuba and some down to I think Honduras. Most stayed here. Contact was re-established after the Korean Conflict in the 1950s. SusunW (talk) 23:30, 26 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@SusunW: Glad your power is back up. Sounds like it's really hot in your area! To refer to an article or category on another language wikipedia, do this, [[:es:Chenkú]] or this, [[:es:Categoría:Haciendas de Yucatán]]. But instead of the whole thing showing, when you've got a list going of English language redlinks accompanied by their foreign-language bluelink, it's appropriate to do this [[Hacienda Chenkú]] [[:es:Chenkú|(es)]], which ends up looking like this, Hacienda Chenkú (es); my gendergap sandbox (User:Rosiestep/Gender Gap) contains more examples. Hoping this makes sense. Soooooo, this hacienda project is a getter bigger and bigger. Do you know any students who are interested in rolling up their sleeves, i.e. translating the Spanish-language articles? If we're still working on the project by the time I get to Wikimania, I'll surely mention it to the local editors. --Rosiestep (talk) 02:05, 27 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Rosiestep: again with no power 108F today. Rain soon, we hope. Found this which is fascinating and works in with our project too, I think, (es). It's about the tokens that various haciendas issued for use at their company store. "Cacau" is on it - JMP is José María Ponce Solís. And it looks like the source is in English "Henequen Plantation Tokens of The Yucatan Peninsula" (not available on line). The source I found with the original 73 is from the government of Yucatan, and seems to be basically the source that the Spanish pages used. I also found various pieces in Yucatan Living. Am just going to try to work through several of these in my user space until I figure out how to put the demographics and maps into them. SusunW (talk) 01:10, 29 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Susun I saw pictures of coins and paper money on Commons which appear to be attributed to the haciendas. I want to get this sorted out on Commons, too. Bummer about the recurring power outage; hope your dinner plans included the bbq instead of the oven. --Rosiestep (talk) 01:17, 29 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
@Rosiestep: I now have 3 "sort of done". Still trying to figure out how to put the second location map into the info box. But, I have a stylistic question. On the Chenkú article from the Spanish wiki, there was a section on the history of the haciendas. I tweaked it a bit, some of theirs wasn't sourced, and came up with the "Haciendas of Yucatán" section on User:SusunW/Hacienda Chenkú this page. It sort of gives the overview of the hacienda growth in Mexico. I think it gives background and could be incorporated into all of the articles, unless you think it should be on a separate page. Should I add it to the other two I have done? The more I read,the more I realize how many of these there were ... one page estimates over 400. o.O Clearly most have gone to ruin and don't need a separate article, unless we discover something fascinating to make them individually notable. SusunW (talk) 22:58, 29 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@SusunW: more thoughts:

  • New article: I think that section you wrote on Haciendas of Yucatán should be its own article -- Haciendas of Yucatán -- which should also include merging the content currently at Hacienda henequenera (and leaving a redirect). Regarding process: It would be easiest to first move the "hacienda henequenera" article to Haciendas of Yucatán; and then add the paragraphs which are currently in your sandbox article.) If you are in agreement with Haciendas of Yucatán, I'd like to move most of this section from my talkpage to the article talkpage so that others can participate in the dialogue.
  • List: Started List of haciendas of Yucatán. I think the haciendas which are in ruins and don't have RS content don't need a stand-alone article and don't need to be on the list. I think the ones which have RS should be a redlink.
  • Naming convention: Would it ever be appropriate to mirrow the es article name (i.e. not include "hacienda" as the first word)? I'm asking as some of these places may have started as a hacienda by are now a "locale". I will defer to you! --Rosiestep (talk) 00:16, 30 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
    You confirmed both what I thought and what my sister said. 1) It needs to be in a separate article, with a redirect and minimal amount of info given in each main article. Will work on that. So the answers to the question are yes, create the article. Yes, redirect. Yes, reduce the info in Chenkú and copy instead to new article. And finally, yes, put this info on a talk page. (I keep feeling guilty for using up all your space and have no idea how to archive my own. 2) I'm guessing since the list of 73 is GOB provided, those are the most important, but we shall see as we weed through them. 3) I think not. The Hacienda and the community supporting it were the same until 1937. If after that the community took on a different aspect, the house was still named what it was named. I'll ask my doppelganger, who I may have convinced to join us in this project what she thinks. SusunW (talk) 04:04, 30 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Cuxtal Ecological Reserve

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I moved the ones that were above that are in this zone, as they should all be tied together. Am starting this group now. Cuxtal Ecological Reserve contains 7 haciendas:

cuxtal reserve cuxtal SusunW (talk) 20:27, 8 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Article describes labor developments

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www.reservaeleden.org.mx/publicaciones/libro_el_eden/Capitulos/Capitulo%2032.pdf

Juan Alonso y Huerdo (or Buerdo)

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Was translating some articles about the Basque regions of Spain and ran across this entry: [86] which indicates "One of the nephews of the Marquis of Santa Cruz ... in the land of [Mexico] was Pedro González Alonso. ... [bought] in 1828 one of the largest ranches around Mexico, called Hacienda Calderon (possibly named for being descendants Inguanzo Calderón de la Barca). Also he had the Rancho Pala and reportedly in hectares, both properties were larger than the Principality of Asturias whole (while Pedro González Alonso had to make and authorize a train to control and cross his land). Likewise, Pedro Gonzalez was the heir of the Mayorazgo Palace and the largest line of Diaz and Alonso Inguanzo. At his death, his son Juan Alonso and Huerdo (or Buerdo, which is the same name) inherited all the properties... one of the most famous and richest men in Mexico. Sadly Millionaire fame leads him to death, for in 1869 he was kidnapped [and killed] ... Died intestate ... in 1870 two nephews in Inguanzo Vicente and Joaquina Alonso y Simón inherited." I ran all of these names through Wiki and find nothing, except a Rancho Pala which does not appear to be the same one. Could be in another part of Mexico entirely, but I thought I'd post it here in case someone runs into these names. SusunW (talk) 17:06, 6 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Count of Miraflores

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Okay, so as you know, I've been working on the haciendas. I keep running into the Count and Countess Miraflores, but not really interested in royalty, so I move on. Then today, I am looking at Itzincab Cámara. One of the things it is known for are the lauburu decorations. Those are basque, and it isn't addressed in the English Wiki, but there are pictures of Itzincab on the Spanish wiki of lots of haciendas sporting lauburu. So I think to myself, must have been someone of basque heritage who arrived early in Yucatan. I search, and find ... Around 1675 a Basque immigrant named Pedro de Garrástegui bought the post of Treasurer of the Santa Cruzada and shortly after buying that post, bought the title of Count of Miraflores, “thereby making himself and his heirs the only family of titled nobility in Yucatán.” See pg 82 A further search shows that Basque traders had a virtual monopoly on the cocoa trade from 1728 on and were doing business in Yucatán through at least the 1790s. see pages 68-71 No original research...I have nothing that says they brought the basque symbol with them, but a whole lot of haciendas here use the symbol. I don't think I can just slap the photos on the lauburu page without some explanation, but there is no explanation on the Spanish site, just the photos. Any ideas? SusunW (talk) 21:40, 5 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@SusunW: this is interesting. I can't see any of the pages of either book, but there has to be something about the lauburu's Yucatan connection somewhere. Any chance the Merida Univ library might have a resource, perhaps check with a librarian there. Or is there a local historical society which might have some old documents? --Rosiestep (talk) 05:16, 6 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
@SusunW: I did a little googling regarding the lauburu/Yucatan connection and found this regarding Mucuchíes in Merida, Venezuela. --Rosiestep (talk) 14:23, 6 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
@Rosiestep: weird, I cannot see your reference either. Even tried pasting it directly. Hmmmm. Maybe you put what you found and I put what I found and between the two we can build a basis for adding the photos? SusunW (talk) 14:36, 6 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
@Rosiestep: and I can try the local library, but the biggest problem we will have is primary sources. I think the whole thing about only 2ndary sources is crazy. I get avoid primary sources created by the subject, but I would far rather use a primary document created by say a government, court, etc. than use a secondary source which has misreported an event simply because some other source did and once it is in print it never dies. SusunW (talk) 15:18, 6 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
@SusunW: This is what was in the snippet: "Pondremos un ejemplo proximo: el lauburu es un simbolo solar muy caracteristico del area vasca, y frecuentemente representado en las estelas. En la parroquia de Santa Lucia de Mucuchies (Estado de Medica, Venezuela), observamos varios lauburus en la ..." A friendly FYI, if you edit my talkpage, I will automatically get notified there's a message, so you don't have to include {{yo|Rosiestep}}. --Rosiestep (talk) 04:07, 7 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
So, maybe we just go with something as simple as that until more is found "Though the "lauburu" is generally associated with the Basque areas of Spain, it can be found in other places where they settled, such as the areas around Mérida, Mexico and Merida, Venezuela." I can add my source about the count with photos and you can add yours about Venezuela. SusunW (talk) 12:12, 7 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
@SusunW: At present, neither of the Merida articles mention the Basque so Basque settlement in the area would have to be substantiated. I googled Merida Venezuela Basque and this seems to substantiate Basque presence in the area. I'll search some more after work. What are you seeing? --Rosiestep (talk) 14:22, 7 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
The article on the Count/ess of Miraflores clearly states he was basque and I have documented that family living in Teya and Chenche de las Torres but even better, I found an architect! "1560 Architect Juan de Veramendi, from Bizkaia, sees the completion of his Cathedral of Cuzco in South America. Other great Basque architects in the New World are Cristóbal de Aulestia in Méridia, Yucatán; Diego de Aguirre, Matías Maestro, Agustín de Gavira, Juan de Egoaguirre and Juan Iñigo de Eraso in Lima, Peru; Francisco de Ibarra in Callao; Miguel de Arregui in Cuzco; and Fray Mariano de Garay in Cayma. These men brought two new elements of construction to the Americas: The dome and the arch." p 25, but then a whole list of folks in Mexico from pp 103-108 and South America 110-113 So far I have found nada that mentions Cristóbal de Aulestia as an architect, but I did find an article mentioning that Pedro de Aulestia was one of the architects of the main cathedral of Mérida. [87] Aulesti basque country. SusunW (talk) 15:46, 7 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Jesus isn't his dad???

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Okay, so I was working through the Kancabchén haciendas. I found a reference on Spanish Wiki (es) which references the coins of the various haciendas and is sometimes helpful for establishing history or ownership. In this case, there is an entry which shows: Inscripciones "HACIENDA", "JESUS", "PORPIEDAD DEL SR. A.M. BURGOS". | Inscripciones "VALE", "POR UN PASE", "A", "KANCABCHEN", "AGOSTO 1º DE 1915" Y "Nº 5". "worth a pass (to/at) Kancabchen" is the relevant part. The file link is to a hacienda José (es). Joseph is not the same as Jesus, and of course there is no documentation on any of the Spanish sites. I also do not see the inscription they say is on the back of the chit. But, I wonder if it could be that Kancabchén (Tixkokob) is Hacienda Jesus. Or that the same guy owned both? If you search the list a little farther, there is another listing HACIENDA", "SAN JUAN", "PROPIEDAD DEL SR. A.M. BURGOS", "VALE", "POR UN PASE", "A", "KANCABCHEN". Still in Tixkokob, still leading me to think that maybe A. M. Burgos owned them all. SusunW (talk) 21:28, 5 June 2015 (UTC) [says this particular pass was for an electric car?] SusunW (talk) 21:50, 5 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

State or region?

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Maybe clarify whether these are haciendas in the region/peninsula or only in Yucatán State. Eldizzino (talk) 20:30, 21 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Eldizzino: Thanks! Every one of them I have done so far is within the state of Yucatán. From what I can tell, there are over 3,000 in the state of Yucatán alone. I will probably never finish them, let alone expand to the rest of the peninsula without some major help. SusunW (talk) 20:39, 21 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
@SusunW: Can we involve the university student through the Wikipedia education ambassadors program? Clearly, this would be a perfect project. --Rosiestep (talk) 14:44, 22 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
@Rosiestep: would love to have several university students work on this. Know nothing about the education ambassador's program, how it works, how one contacts schools, how one picks what the project focus is, etc. SusunW (talk) 02:24, 23 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Categorization

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Currently several haciendas are in Category:Populated places in Yucatán.

Could they all just go to Category:Haciendas of Yucatán and that category then is put into Category:Populated places in Yucatán or linked from there?

If there are really 3000 haciendas, then putting them all into Category:Populated places in Yucatán would make that category quite full.

Eldizzino (talk) 13:32, 22 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Eldizzino: I think we are dealing with at least 3 types of haciendas here: (1) a historical building with a population currently living around it, (i.e. a populated place); (2) a historical building, now derelict; or (3) a historical building re-purposed as a hotel and/or etc.. So all of the articles should be categorized as Category:Haciendas of Yucatán, but they should also have at least one other cat to indicate their present-day status. --Rosiestep (talk) 14:41, 22 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Rosiestep: Thank you. So, not all haciendas are populated. Regarding 1: What are the official designations for administrative entities below the municipality level? E.g. Abalá Municipality (Municipio de Abalá) lists "communities", but in the Spanish Wikipedia es:Abalá (municipio) it says "Localidad". Long-term, there might be an article for every "localidad", which are entities identified by INEGI. Maybe these should go to a specific Category:Localities of Yucatán. At es:Cucá it says that the locality is a "comisaría". Maybe each locality has some specific type? Eldizzino (talk) 15:43, 22 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Eldizzino: It's a good question, but I'm not sure what the right designation(s) are for the haciendas that are currently "populated places". And, to complicate things, I suspect that we may not be able to lump all haciendas which are "populated places" into the same cat. I think we can agree that where possible, we should use the government's terminology, be it municipio, comisaría, or whatever. @SusunW: thoughts? --Rosiestep (talk) 01:36, 23 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Eldizzino: and @Rosiestep: Hopefully my battery will give me power long enough to answer. Have had no water nor internet all day. Internet just came back and the power just went out. Back up battery usually lasts 30 minutes.
I have no idea what to call them to be truthful. The government site which I have been using to write the municipalities articles calls them all sorts of different things. And it is not standardized across locations -- I suspect different people authored the different municipalities information on the government site. Since there are actually legal definitions of these types of places, but they do not seem to be used in the government website, I have tried to avoid specifying what they are and stuck with populated place or unpopulated place when writing about them.
The other problem is that some of the terms the government uses do not have equivalents in English. A comisaría or "subcomisaria" is like a police precinct, but to most English speakers that is more like a business than a designation of a place that people live. I think it would be more confusing to call it a police precinct, because in the US and UK those are usually designated areas within a city and in Mexico those are actually small villages. There aren't equivalent words, IMO. For English speakers in general a municipality is a town or city. The way Mexico uses it is more like a county or a township. Had I written the original article, I do not think I would have called them Municipalities even though it translates that way because it is confusing to understand that it is a multiple town governing body not a body for a single entity. I think the words they use should be retained and we should not translate them, but that is just my opinion. SusunW (talk) 01:58, 23 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
One more thought...on the haciendas -- that is completely not standard. Some government sites call the "villages": haciendas, some call them pueblos, some call them ejidos, some cuidad libre, and some call them them ex-hacindas. In Mérida and its surrounds, particularly with the sites they have identified as culturally noteworthy, see lists above, they call the house which was retained by the owner the hacienda and the village surrounding it something else. I have maintained *that* usage. The hacienda refers only to the private property retained by the owner of the once larger estate. The village or whatever you want to call it surrounding that private property may have the same name, but not the appellation of hacienda, i.e. Hacienda Cacao is within the village of Cacao. SusunW (talk) 02:20, 23 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Mexico is not alone: Municipio. Translation by function could mean to call an Argentine or Canadian province a state, so that US people better understand the topic. But I think it is easier to just a similar word. So, there are provinces of Italy and of Canada, but they have different functions. No idea how to translate comisaria and subcomisaria. Maybe something like es:Categoría:Localidades de Yucatán por municipio is sufficient, and maybe restricting to items that have an INEG code. INEG codes can be found at http://www.microrregiones.gob.mx/catloc/ Eldizzino (talk) 02:59, 23 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
@Eldizzino: and @Rosiestep: Yes, I'd be perfectly fine with a category Localities (or Locations) of Yucatán by Municipality or even Localities (or Locations) in Yucatecan Municipalities. BUT, if you restrict them to items that have an INEG code, some of the derelict haciendas which were very important, I fear would not show. Maybe I am wrong. That Municipio page needs explanations and work. I don't know if the word even means the same in other Spanish jurisdictions, but it doesn't even have a definition of the word, just the translation, which as I have said is not equivalent in English. It is one of the things I have always admired about the English language, if we do not have a word that is equivalent, the word usually enters the language without ever being translated ("bon appetit", "macho", etc.), but for some reason, there seems to be a desire on Wikipedia to translate all words, even in titles or names of things, which I do not understand. I also noticed that some of the haciendas at the top of this page are not in Yucatán, so we need a category Haciendas of Mexico, or something similar. SusunW (talk) 14:42, 23 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Newspapers are translating too, to make the topics easier for readers. I personally know that China is divided into entities called "province" in English - No idea of the native name(s). I think translation into some English language word helps. The details of what Canton, County, Department, District, Municipality, Governorate, Prefecture, Province, Region, State, Territory (all of Romance language origin) or any of the other in Template:Terms for types of country subdivisions are in each country is left for dedicated articles. Not translating Spanish for my personal understanding is fine, but I might be less comfortable with Asian entities. Eldizzino (talk) 15:41, 23 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
@Eldizzino: I guess it is fine if the pages just explain it. I expanded Municipio so that it isn't just a straight translation and gives context. If we then point the Municipalities pages there, I think we are fine. SusunW (talk) 18:06, 23 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
We need Category:Haciendas of Mexico. We probably need Category:Haciendas, too. --Rosiestep (talk) 01:19, 24 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

INEGI locality identifier

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I asked for a property to be created and now it exists. Some items use it already: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/Property:P1976 . That gives some official backing for places. Not specific to haciendas, but maybe of help. The IDs then allow linking to http://www.microrregiones.gob.mx/catloc/ . Eldizzino (talk) 21:08, 6 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Description of the clean-up work at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Mexico#Connecting with INEGI. Eldizzino (talk) 19:48, 10 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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