OSICALA, EL SALVADOR — Wielding his machetelike knife, farmer Salomón Sanchez, 70, cuts down a henequen plant as his forefathers have done for more than two centuries. "Since I began to work, since I ...
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Primitive Water Bottle and Henequen in Mexico
The calabash bottle gourd (Lagenaria siceraria) has been cultivated in tropical and subtropical regions of the world for thousands of years. The vine produces a large fruit that when mature can be ...
Hundreds of plantations once symbolised the peninsula's wealth but were abandoned in the 1950s after a sudden downturn of fortune. Over the years, the jungle has taken them back. (This year, we ...
La diseñadora mexicana Lydia Lavín presentó este martes su colección primavera verano “La finca” con diseños realizados con la fibra natural de la planta prehispánica del henequén y bordados mayas, un ...
The legend of henequen—an agave plant once known in Mérida as “green gold”—is still chronicled as a miraculous accident. Locals will tell you that Zamná, a Mayan god and storied herbalist, was pricked ...
West of Cancún and Tulum’s popular beach resorts and the iconic pyramids of Chichen Itzá, a renovated plantation bills itself as a “living museum” transporting visitors to Yucatán’s nineteenth-century ...
Cheering peons, in their dirty overalls, folded serapes over their shoulders, sailed their huge white sombreros into the air last week in Merida as President Lazaro Cárdenas, taking another step in ...
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