Jiquipilas

Jiquipilas is situated in the central demographic region, toward the west of the territory of Chiapas, 64 km from Tuxtla Gutierrez, the state capital. Its fundamental exercises are exchange, domesticated animals, ranger service, beekeeping, farming: corn, sorghum, peanuts, beans and tomatoes. This town is viewed as the origin of the marimba in Chiapas, Chiapas melodic instrument second to none. The region of Jiquipilas has a population of 37,818 inhabitants.

The primary marimba of which there is news in Chiapas is of 1545 in the hacienda of Santa Lucia, in Jiquipilas; and could be considered as the support of the marimba in Chiapas. Despite the fact that the marimba has its cause in Africa and was brought by dark slaves; nonetheless, the most remote reference to an antecedent instrument of the marimba was called macaguil. As per an archive dated October 9, 1545, at the Hacienda de Santa Lucia, in Jiquipilas, Chiapas, Pedro Gentil de Bustamante relates a festival of Mixtec indigenous individuals.