Dziuché Explained

Official Name:Dziuché
Settlement Type:Town
Blank Emblem Type:Emblem
Pushpin Map:Mexico
Pushpin Label Position:left
Pushpin Map Caption:Location of the Municipality in Mexico
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Type1:State
Subdivision Name1: Yucatán
Subdivision Type2:Municipality
Subdivision Name2:Hoctún
Established Title:Established
Population As Of:2010
Population Total:10
Population Footnotes:[1]
Timezone:EST
Utc Offset:-5
Coordinates:20.9122°N -89.1964°W
Elevation M:14
Blank Info Sec1:310350004
Blank Name Sec1:INEGI Code

Dziuché is a town located in the Hoctún Municipality in the State of Yucatán in the southeast of Mexico.

The town developed around an old hacienda. It had its splendor during the time of the henequen boom, between 1870 and 1920, and issued tokens which, due to their design, are of interest to numismatists. These tokens accredit the hacienda as the property of Juan Gamboa.[2]

Later, the hacienda was acquired by Raymundo Cámara Luján, a wealthy landowner who reactivated the sugarcane industry in the Yucatán peninsula; in the period 1909-1910, for example, the Dziuché Hacienda produced some 12,000 kilograms of sugarcane and some 10,000 kilograms of honey.[3]

In 1937, a socialist government headed by President Lázaro Cárdenas del Río expropriated the Haciendas from the traditional landowning families and transformed them into ejidos, an autonomous communal unit, with collective right to land ownership.

After the government expropriated the land around the hacienda from the Cámara family in 1937, the sugarcane mill was abandoned and Dzuinché stopped being the economic powerhouse it had once been. As a result, the town which once housed tens of thousands of laborers now has a population of only ten people.[4]

Notes and References

  1. http://www.inegi.org.mx/sistemas/consulta_resultados/iter2010.aspx?c=27329&s=est Census Results by Locality, 2010
  2. James . Preston E. . 1947-05-01 . Enciclopedia yucatanense conmemorativa del IV centenario de Mérida y Valladolid (Yucatán) Tomo I. Introducción. Geografía física. Fauna. Flora . Hispanic American Historical Review . 27 . 2 . 282–283 . 10.1215/00182168-27.2.282 . 0018-2168. free .
  3. Web site: Ic . José . 2016-01-26 . Dos historias del Mayab: el milagroso sobador de Yobaín y el brujo de Dziuché . 2023-05-12 . El Chilam Balam . es-MX.
  4. http://www.inegi.org.mx/sistemas/consulta_resultados/iter2010.aspx?c=27329&s=est Census Results by Locality, 2010