fazenda

thumb|262x262px|Piedade farm. The Casa-grande|master's house of a coffee plantation founded in the 18th century in [[Paty do Alferes in the Province (now state) of Rio de Janeiro]]

A fazenda () is a plantation found throughout Brazil during the colonial period (16th–18th centuries). They were concentrated primarily in the northeastern region, where sugar was produced in the engenhos, expanding during the 19th century in the southeastern region to coffee production. Nowadays fazenda denotes any kind of farm in Brazilian Portuguese and occasionally in other Portuguese varieties as well.