Jaltenango

Jaltenango lies in the Cuxtepeques valley of Chiapas, between the mountains of the Sierra Madre and the basin of the Grijalva. Its name belongs to a landscape of valleys and streams descending from the surrounding highlands. An estate called Jaltenango appears in documents of the Cuxtepeques parish in 1778, showing the presence of a colonial rural property before the later town grew up in the valley.