The Calle Rivera dwindled into a dusty, white, winding road, straggling, flower-choked gardens replaced the city blocks and gave way in turn to haciendas whose flat fertile acres teemed with the luscious harvest.
Few of the men had departed, those few who had ridden in from nearby haciendas where unwarned families waited in ignorance of the menace sweeping down upon them from the hills.
The agricultural productions are of course suitable to such a geological structure; but in the Haciendas de Ganado, or cattle farms, immense herds are constantly raised by the thrifty vaqueros of this region.
In the state of Oajaca there are the fine haciendas of Guendolein, Arragon, Chicomastlahuaca and Ayotla, besides smaller plantations; and, in the state of Vera Cruz there are many valuable estates in the neighborhood of Orizaba and Cordova.
I saw that haciendas had become mere place-names as they disintegrated or were bulldozed.
By 1960, the last of the largest haciendas had been abolished: the Greene Cananea Ranch and the Hacienda Atotonilco had become agrarian property--millions of acres had returned to the people.
The disintegration of the haciendas began as a result of the Mexican Revolution, and it ended with the redistribution of their land during the Agrarian Reform.
Yet, at the same time there were haciendas that had to face financial problems and fluctuations in production.
Since most haciendas were remote and few women accompanied the settlers, isolation and power granted license.
When Bartlett began his travels through the Mexican backcountry, the producing haciendas had largely disappeared.
Most renownedhaciendas are only memories: they are cascos, recuerdos.
Grain haciendas were established mainly in the vicinity of the urban centers, which they supplied.
Over the years since then, I have visited 330 haciendas and made the first art record of these estates.
This hacienda, like most of the haciendas of the country, was a good substantial building on the four sides of a square, and arranged with reference to the defense of the interior space.
Before approaching Nopalucan, the road for some two miles passes through a highly cultivated tract of country, with some dozenhaciendas on the right and left.
One of these revolts on the plantation Quiebra Hache and some on other neighboring haciendas led to the foundation of Santa Maria del Rosario.
A few of them retained the land, made their haciendas the home of generations to come, and attained to some rank and standing by virtue of these great holdings.
To this add a kitchen and outhouses, a garden running to waste and overrunning with flowers, with stiff stone walks and a fountain in the middle, an orchard and an olive-ground; such are most of the haciendas that I have yet seen.
As there are no inns, we are furnished with letters of recommendation to the proprietors of the chief haciendas in these parts.
It is nearly impossible to conceive anything more lonely than a residence here must be; or in fact in any of the haciendas situated on these great plains of Otumha and Apan.
Having been established at a time when the greater part of the island was occupied by farms of cattle (haciendas de ganado), these parishes are of too great extent, and little adapted to the requirements of present civilization.
But just around Merida, where are the haciendas of the richest of the henequen lords, much has been done of late to turn these farms into lordly pleasure-houses.
The haciendas are regarded as excellent breeding grounds for new generations of slaves.
On the bigger haciendas there are regular nurseries for these seedlings, which are carefully fostered for a year or so that they may be of fair size when they are needed for planting out.
There is another tree which rivals the ceiba in shadiness, but this you only see on the haciendas which have been long in cultivation.
The Yucatecan bullies have done their work so well that if the Indians of all the haciendas could be asked whether they were contented, a large majority, possibly almost all, would apathetically declare themselves content.
You see the birds in other Mexican towns and cities: you see them in Yucatan perched on the walls of haciendas or in the woods wrenching at the hide of a rotting cow, but they never seem to personify evil as at Vera Cruz.
A perfect network of regulations and laws are in force on all the haciendas to keep the Indians.
Built in 1820, Palma Sola had the white spread of seaside haciendas of that period: its porch stalked on salt gnawed posts, its Marseilles tiled roof defied storm and quake, every wall was thick and every window deep set.
Gabriel, the haciendas are littered with their graves.
He came to Mexico during WWII and developed a life-long interest in visiting haciendas throughout the country in order to make the first large-scale artistic and photographic record of these ancient, fascinating, but rapidly vanishing places.
He turned to the letter again and read: "Dear Raul, "I hear that things have been going badly at your hacienda, at most of the haciendas in the Colima area.
Peasants of the neighboring haciendas had dubbed Petaca the "Hacienda of the Clarin.
The rich and numerous haciendaswhich formerly studded the landscape were nearly all devastated, the fields were uncultivated and deserted, and the country offered an aspect of gloomy desolation painful to contemplate.
The grasses of the Puna are used as fodder, and in many of the sheltered valleys there are farms (Haciendas de Ganado), where large herds of cattle are reared.
The butcher's meat given to the laboring Indians in general consists of Chalonas, that is, the dried flesh of sheep which have died in the haciendas of the hilly districts.
The Negro slave is far more happy than the free Indians in the haciendas of this part of Peru.
Scarcely anything but the vine is cultivated in the Haciendas of the environs; and this branch of husbandry contributes greatly to enrich the province.
The walls of thehaciendas are of rough unhewn stone.
The road from Chancay to the Haciendas of Bisquira, Andahuasi, and the village of Sayan, extends in a northeasterly direction, through a dreary valley of sand, between rows of sterile hillocks of the most singular forms.
The Montaña was soon peopled, and in a short time it contained upwards of fortyhaciendas and large chacras.
The stagnation of business has deprived them of their ordinary incomes from real estate, and the war has taken off the laborers, so that the sugar haciendas and the mills are idle.
We were much interested in the haciendas through which the train passed, as well as in the homes of their owners and in the picturesque villages along the road.
The haciendas paid him blackmail in cattle and horses; extraordinary stories were told of his powers and of his wonderful escapes from capture.
He delegated soldiers to administer the great haciendaswhich he had confiscated.
He used to come to the great Haciendasand make speeches.
Some of the haciendas he burned and destroyed the people in them.
He had raided two churches in Mexico and plundered several haciendas before coming up from the Border, so people say.
We stopped at San Miguel, another of the haciendas of the Company, where the German barrel-process is worked.
On the great haciendas in the neighbourhood of Puebla, the Indian labourers are very generally in this condition.
At supper appeared two more guests besides ourselves, apparently traders carrying goods to sell at the villages and haciendas on the road.
On the lower levels of the tierra templada where the sugar-cane is cultivated, a costly system of water-supply has been established in the haciendas with the best results.
We have been working among the haciendas on the other side of the railroad.
This outfit was out raiding haciendas to supply the new base!
On our haciendas they are proud to gain a soldado for a sweetheart.
For when they are not hacking one another to pieces our peones live in rude comfort on the haciendas with enough to eat and drink, no more work than they feel like doing, merriment enough in their bailes and fiestas.
While the gringos on other haciendas are simply streaking for the border, you men insist on working here for nothing.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "haciendas" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
