The main building 
ANTIGUA HACIENDA & MUSEUM 
Km. 33, Federal Highway 261, Merida - Uxmal 
YaxcopoiC Yucatan, Mexico 
VISITORS' GUIDE 
The hacienda (landed property) Yaxcopoil can be dated back to the seventeenth 
century. 
"Yaxcopoil" signifying in Mayan language "the place of the green alamo trees", 
combines in its history the three great periods of ancient Yucatan: The precolumbian 
period, the time of the Spanish colony, and the boom years of the sisal cultivation 
during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. 
With an extension of about 22000 acres of land in the time of its greatest splendor, 
Yaxcopoil was considered one of the most important rural estates due to its size and 
magnificence, both in the cattle branch and in the sisal hemp industry. 
The main building (casa principal) consists of large lounges and drawing rooms, 
spacious corridors with high ceilings, surrounded by extensive gardens with infinite 
varieties of colours and an exuberant vegetation that places us in a unique and 
incomparable atmosphere. It still keeps the original European furniture which 
transmits the taste and atmosphere of the time. 
The office displays some books, maps, documents, and other collections from the 
time of the hacienda administration. 
