Sugar mills in Mexico

The present research work deals in general with the subject of sugar elaboration and the buildings which lodged the related activities; and in particular the site of the ex-hacienda of San Pedro Martir Cuahuixtla in the Mexican State of Morelos. The initial part is dedicated to an historical revision of the sugar in the New World from the introduction of the sugar cane and the technique for its processing ; also the remarkable built material testimonies are revised. There is analyzed in particular the conditions that allowed the flourishing of productive establishments called Sugar haciendas within the New Spain and in the region that currently occupies the State of Morelos. It is made a description of the vestiges of the ex-hacienda Cuahuixtla, a revision of its chronology and a functional hypothesis as well. The criteria for their valorisation as monument of Industrial Heritage and its possible rehabilitation are set out

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