Known as hacendados, they controlled vast swaths of the country by virtue of their huge estates (for example, the Terrazas had one estate in Sonora that alone comprised more than a million acres).
Kendt som hacendados, kontrollerede de store områder af landet i kraft af deres enorme godser (for eksempel Terrazas havde en ejendom i Sonora, der alene bestod af mere end en million acres).