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Chiapa de Corzo, Chiapas

Festivals

(Chiapa de Corzo celebrates the many Mexican festivals featured in our calendar. The ones listed below are particular to Chiapas de Corzo)

January - All Month Sitting Child.

Celebrated statewide. A child sits in a small chair and sings to God. The party host gives the child a bag with honey wafers, sweet wine and tamales.

January 15-23 Feast of the Lord of Esquipulas

Celebration of the Black Christ, Dancing, feasts. Pilgrims leave for the Basilica of the Black Christ in Guatemala.

June - Chiapas state marimba

It's time to dance Catalá – a pre-Hispanic dance represents Quetzalcoatl, who has either on his shoulders or back and waist, the head of a plumed serpent. He holds a machete to fight the Jaguars. It is a struggle between heaven and the underworld. The music for this dance is interpreted as part of an old ritual that invokes the gods and the rain.