latifundio

plural latifundios

1. A large estate, large land property, especially in Latin America; a latifundium.

   In our time latifundios south of Bahia—from the Recôncavo region to the state of Espirito Santo, between the littoral lowlands and the mountain chain along the coast—still supply raw material for a good part of the world's chocolate consumption.

   1997 [1971], Cedric Belfrage, transl., Open Veins of Latin America, Monthly Review Press, translation of Las venas abiertas de América Latina by Eduardo Galeano, page 92