Hacienda Santa Rosa de Lima

Hacienda Santa Rosa de Lima is located in Maxcanú Municipality, Yucatán, Mexico, about 60 km from the city of Mérida.

In 1897 the estate had 90 people living on it, with "363 heads of cattle, 236 cows, 90 bulls, 37 calves, 29 horses (including mares) and 39 mules".

It was owned by engineer Enrique Vales Monforte at the time it was taken over by a private company in 1996, which fully restored it as an exclusive luxury hotel.

The hacienda is organized, like most Mexican estates of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, in an axis from north to south.

The 9.200 m² botanical garden is set amidst an old fruit plantation, and features over 200 species of plants, several of which are endemic to the Yucatán Peninsula.