A ranch is an area of land, including various structures, given primarily to ranching, the practice of raising grazing livestock such as cattle and sheep. It is a subtype of farm. These terms are most
View of the Grant-Kohrs Ranch near Deer Lodge, Montana, U.S.
Spanish Shepherd on horseback herding sheep in Murcia (1880).
Royal cañada trail through Old Castile (Segovia, Spain)
Atequiza Hacienda in Jalisco, a major hacienda de labor that combined farming and cattle raising. It contained its own theater.
A hacienda is an estate, similar to a Roman latifundium, in Spain and the former Spanish Empire. With origins in Andalusia, haciendas were variously plantations, mines or factories, with many hacienda
Ranch
…and where the land is sowed; and to a small independent cattle farm, or to a cattle station, an area of land for cattle raising, that is dependent of a hacienda, a large cattle estate. In Spain it retained its military origin, being defined as: the group of people, typically soldiers, who eat together in a…
Hacienda Lealtad is a working coffee hacienda which used slave labor in the 19th century, located in Lares, Puerto Rico.
Hacienda of Xcanchakan, Yucatán, Mexico
Wheat mill and theatre of Vicente Gallardo; Hacienda Atequiza, Jalisco, Mexico, 1886.
Hacendado. Claudio Linati, 1830.