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rentals, fishing, camping and lodging. The hacienda sells chocolate products and local handcrafts. It is a youth hostel and it also provides student housing during the school year. It offers tours of its cacao and sugar fields. The
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and sugar cane. Another important industry is the raising of organic earthworms for composting. In a closed section in the back of the property,
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yard has a small deep well, an old sugar mill and an area dedicated to the raising of earthworms. The hacienda grows
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Cruces family, with the first known owner being Benito Cruces, the father of
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