During Yucatán's Gilded Age, which lasted roughly between 1870 and 1920, henequen comprised almost twenty percent of Mexico's total exports, producing 90% of the sacks and rope consumed internationally.

"[5] Thus, since the beginning of the colonial period, the Cámara family already owned lands in Sinanché, which, like Temax, was then part of the district of Izamal, an area that would become the henequen region of Yucatán in the mid-19th century.

Raymundo Cámara Luján became an important industrialist during the Porfiriato and was the father-in-law of José María Pino Suárez, who would become the Vice President of Mexico between 1911 and his assassination in 1913.

In addition to henequen, in his other estates he also produced sugar cane, chewing gum, tobacco, cocoa, cotton, bananas, vanilla, and exploited forest resources.

During Yucatán's Gilded Age, which lasted roughly between 1870 and 1920, henequen comprised almost twenty percent of Mexico's total exports, producing 90% of the sacks and rope consumed internationally.

In the 1920s, when the hacienda was still owned by the Cámara Vales brothers, three statues from the Maya civilization were found on its grounds: "Very present in the oral tradition of Temax and Chucmichén, as the place is known for three sculptures that were sent by train to Mérida in the 1920s.

These sculptures were displayed in the archaeological garden on the site that occupied the colonial cemetery of the chapel of the Ermita de Santa Isabel in the city of Mérida.

The head is small and round with a highly stylized face, and on top rests a horizontal headdress with three pieces in low relief, similar to a hat.

"[8] Like most other haciendas in Mexico, they ceased to exist and became ejidos, which means they became autonomous collective units with communal land ownership rights, starting in 1937 after the decrees that established agrarian reform in Yucatán, promulgated by President Lázaro Cárdenas del Río.