Hi everyone,

I was looking at a number of pictures of the ex-haciendas of Valparaiso, Zacatecas, Mexico in a picture album of photos.

My family is from Huejuquilla, a nearby village along with the ranchos.

I was impressed with the pictures of the haciendas and did not realize how much of a history we had in our region back in the colonial days.

I wonder what it must have it looked like in our region with the haciendas in their full glory.

I saw an article in the online Zacatecas Newspaper about the idea of restoring the haciendas.