Hacienda Chichí Suárez is located in the Mérida Municipality in the state of Yucatán in southeastern Mexico.
[3] The hacienda was founded in the sixteenth century by the conquistador Alonso de Rosado and is one of oldest farms in Yucatán.
[4] In 1919, another Yucatecan governor, Olegario Molina acquired the property which was called Santa María Chichí at that time.
[3] The Hacienda Chichí Suárez is mentioned in a 17th-century deed as consisting of two stone houses with straw roofs, a church, a well and troughs for animals.
[3] All of the henequen plantations ceased to exist as autonomous communities with the agrarian land reform implemented by President Lazaro Cardenas in 1937.