Located in the Camurí Grande valley, on what was the main road connecting the town of Anare to the town of Naiguatá, and facing the old port of Camurí Grande, from which the juice for spirituous liquor was exported, the former Camurí Grande hacien-da (112 ha) today houses the coastline campus of the Universidad Simón Bolívar. Amidst a landscaping of native species, it has two old heritage buildings, which are a historical testimony of the central coast: the hacienda house and the sugar mill. Located on a hill to oversee the cocoa, sugar cane, cotton and coffee crops, the house, with a typical colonial architecture structure, masonry and packed earth walls, is surrounded by perimeter corridors. The old mill for pressing sugar cane, built with baked brick, with a wood and wild-cane roof covered by local shingles, raw terracotta floors and stone walkways, restored by Gasparini in 1976, originally worked by animal traction. Toward 1850, hydraulic wheel technology was incorporated, mobilized by Grande river through an aerial canal. The land of the university campus, which suffered important losses during the 1999 flooding and mudsli-des, was rescued and recovered, and currently serves a population of 1700 students, with its motley collection of buildings.