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Hacienda (UK: /ˌhæsiˈendə/, US: /ˌhɑːsiˈendə/, American Spanish IPA: )is a Spanish word for an estate. Some haciendas wereplantations, mines, or even business factories. Many haciendas combined these productive activities. The hacienda system of Argentina, parts of Brazil, Chile, Mexico and New Granada was a system of large land-holdings that were an end in themselves as the marks of status (inPortuguese, the cognate term fazenda applies to the similar system in

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