The Carreño family settled at the end of the 19th century, on the lands of San Dionisio Ocotlán, over time they offered a mythical spirit drink with the properties of the agave. The parish registers are still in the archive of the Central Valleys of Oaxaca.
Don Apolonio Carreño was born in 1882. Son of Pedro Carreño and Rosario Arango, he was the brother of Josefina, Serafina and Basilio. All of them men and women from the countryside. In his youth, he dedicated himself to transporting metal from the mines of San Pedro Taviche to Oaxaca in carts pulled by teams. The most important mining reserves were found in the districts of Ocotlán, Tlacolula, Ejutla and Miahuatlán; He managed to gather 150 carts and with the income from that work he bought the land that would later be owned by Hacienda Carreño.
Agave grew wild on those lands and it was then that in one of those lands, in 1904, a small palenque was installed clandestinely due to the prohibition of distilled agave beverages at that time. Thus begins the tradition of producing Mezcal with ancestral techniques.
