It is one of the properties that arose during the nineteenth century henequen boom, and was owned by José María Ponce.

[6] In 1923 or 1924 the caretaker, his wife and 20 workers on the hacienda were killed by a group of outlaws led by the notorious bandit Braulio Euán, a personal friend of the Governor, José María Iturralde Traconis(es).

[7] X'batún Cave is located south of the city of Mérida in a tiny village called San Antonio Mulix, bordering on the grounds of -and just down the road from - the former hacienda Cacao.

[8] All of the henequen plantations ceased to exist as autonomous communities with the agrarian land reform implemented by President Lazaro Cardenas in 1937.

His decree turned the haciendas into collective ejidos, leaving only 150 hectares to the former landowners for use as private property.