Hacienda Chichí Suárez 3.98

Hacienda Chichí Suárez is located in the Mérida Municipality in the state of Yucatán in southeastern Mexico. It is one of the properties that arose during the nineteenth century henequen boom. It was founded by a Spanish conquistador, owned by the grandson of the founder of Mérida and at least two governors of the State of Yucatán. The home is one of the oldest structures in Mérida.ToponymyThe name is a combination of Maya and Spanish terms. Chichí is a word from the Mayan language meaning grandmother and Suárez, a Spanish surname, and the name of one of the former owners.How to get thereThe property is located in northeastern Mérida to the east of the Periférico at the intersection of Calle 35 with Calle 14 in Colonia Chichí Suárez.HistoryThe hacienda was founded in the sixteenth century by the conquistador Alonso de Rosado and is one of oldest farms in Yucatán. The property changed ownership several times but was eventually sold by Catarina de Andrade to the grandson of Francisco de Montejo the Younger, Juan de Montejo Maldonado. He sold it in 1640 to Antonio de Figueroa y Silva Lasso de la Vega Ladrón del Niño de Guevara the liberator of what is now Belize from England and Governor of Yucatán.In 1919, another Yucatecan governor, Olegario Molina acquired the property which was called Santa María Chichí at that time. The property changed hands several times after 1922 and in 1948 was acquired by Víctor Suárez Molina, who renamed it to Hacienda Chichí Suárez. In 1953, he sold the property to Omar G. Díaz y Díaz.