Chautla

Chautla changed into a previously significant extension of farmland located inside the San Martin Texmelucan Valley in the nation of Puebla, northwest of the town of Puebla in Mexico. It was hooked up in the 18th century, by and large producing grain. In the nineteenth century, it became the belongings of an Englishman with the aid of the name of Thomas Gillow. He handed the belongings to his son Eulogio Gillow, who became the first archbishop of Antequera. Eulogio labored to modernize the hacienda, constructing the primary hydroelectric dam in Latin America on the assets. He also built the belongings’s signature constructing, English style house,

domestically called El Castillo which overlooks the dam. Today, most effective a small fraction of the hacienda remains, and it is run as a recreational and cultural center by means of an enterprise of the kingdom of Puebla. The hacienda was created by means of Manuel Rodriguez de Pinillos y Lopez, who acquired the title of the first Marquis of Selva Nevada from Carlos III in 1777. However, this marquis in no way resided in it. It is certainly one of a number of haciendas set up within the valley which shaped the premise of the local financial system inside the colonial duration.