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Travel Home > Directory > Travel Dictionary > H > Hacienda
HACIENDA. A Spanish word for a country house or estate. Some haciendas were plantations, mines, or even factories. Many haciendas combined these productive activities.
The hacienda system of Argentina, parts of Brazil, Mexico and New Granada was a system of large land-holdings that were an end in themselves as the marks of status, which produced little for export beyond the hacienda itself, which aimed for self-sufficiency in everything but luxuries meant for display, which were destined for the handful of people in the circle of the patrón or owner.
