LAND OWNERSHIP AND PRACTICES 



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ing ill Pauajacliol land. But miiuy of the Latliuo 

 owners from such neighboring communities as 

 Solola and San Andres have long owned Pana- 

 jachcl hind, especially hill land, for reasons other 

 than the resort potentialities of the place. 



A not-too-careful census counted 62 Ladino 



families in 1036. besides officials, teachers, mis- 

 sionaries, and otiiers not permanently resident. 

 Of these 62 families, l.j owned no Panajachcl land 

 at all, while 2 families owned 22 (and 9 families, 

 48) of a total of 140 lots. Including the landless 

 families, the average of 13.6 acres per landowner 



= Coffee- - truck 

 (delta land) 



Cir.\RT 9. — Average acreage per land-owning family. 



