Instrumental and vocal ensembles, as well as soloists, perform bolero. This element is practiced and transmitted in family, neighborhood, community, and social settings, and is expressed through codes of conduct and styles of dress. Its bearers assume different roles, from writing to…

Mariachi music is a fundamental element of Mexican culture. It originated in small string ensembles that wore ritual clothing and performed a repertoire of religious minuets, jarabes-sones, valonas, corridos, songs, waltzes, polkas, and chotices by ear. 

The ritual ceremony of the voladores is a dance associated with fertility practiced by various indigenous peoples of Mexico and Central America—including the Totonacs, Teeneks, Nahuas, Ñañhus, and Mayans—although its most representative and emblematic value is concentrated in Totonacapan,…

Its origins date back to the 16th century when cattle ranches in the north and center of the country, due to their rapid development, found it necessary for the cowboys of the region to work together and cooperate in order to keep track of the cattle on each property.

Mexican cuisine is a living manifestation of a cultural system of collective participation that includes agricultural practices, (rotational cultivation of corn and other plants, with slash-and-burn farming) and chinampa (artificial islands for cultivation in lake areas), ritual…

Pirekua is a musical creation representative of the P'urhépecha community in the state of Michoacán, whose origins date back to the 16th century as a result of a mixture of Amerindian, European, and African influences.

Held on October 12 each year, the Pilgrimage in honor of the Virgin of Zapopan is a religious and cultural tradition whose origins date back to 1734.

Every year at the end of the annual corn cycle, Mexico's indigenous communities celebrate the Day of the Dead with festivities, marking the temporary return of their ancestors' souls to Earth. This ceremony reaffirms the role of individuals in society and reinforces the sociopolitical…

Since the 18th century, the traditional Fiesta Grande de Chiapa de Corzo has been held every year from January 4 to 23 in the state of Chiapas.

Every year, the Otomí-Chichimeca peoples settled in the semi-desert region of the state of Querétaro, in central Mexico, gather at the symbolic triangle formed by Peña de Bernal and the Zamorano and Frontón hills.

The process of making Talavera pottery involves traditional techniques that have been passed down from generation to generation through the intrinsic work carried out in pottery workshops (each of which has its own distinctive features, distinguishing one piece from another) or simply…

In 2006, the Totonac ethnic group created an educational institution for the comprehensive transmission of their knowledge, practices, and arts.