hacienda
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Now it is 7,000 square feet—a proper Spanish hacienda.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
While Moreno-Garcia's book mentions "importing hacienda workers from China. I have not read the book, and do not know whether this would be considered 'negative.'"
From Salon ● Feb. 16, 2024
Word that the gated, four-bedroom hacienda at the end of a cul-de-sac was slated to be torn town sparked expressions of outrage on social media, the Times reported.
From Reuters ● Sep. 8, 2023
With five bedrooms, a Jacuzzi and a grand entryway capped by a cupola, the hacienda stood out from the crumbling adobe buildings nearby.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2023
As Dr. Pérez’s driver turned onto the hacienda grounds, we passed a bare-chested, heavily muscled young man wearing a black beret and riding a bicycle.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
Those often evolved into the even larger haciendas, the size of whole states back in Europe.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2020
Like the other haciendas in the area it was once part of a henequen ranch.
From New York Times ● Feb. 25, 2019
The landscape was what drew people to Utuado, where coffee haciendas were built by “black gold” in the 19th century, funding the island’s first electric light system run by a hydraulic power plant.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2017
The mines supported sprawling haciendas, estates housing bosses and business operations.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 5, 2017
He said, for those willing, there was always work on the coffee haciendas.
From "Life Is So Good" by George Dawson
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Mexico - Introductory
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