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Inside Cuajinicuilapa: The Blackest Town In Mexico
By Parker Diakite
While the history and contributions made by people of African descent in Mexico have not been taught or widely recognized, you can find it by traveling to Cuajinicuilapa: said to be one of the Blackest towns in Mexico. Before 2020, when Afro-Mexicans were counted for the first time in
While the history and contributions made by people of African descent in Mexico have not been taught or widely recognized, you can find it by traveling to Cuajinicuilapa: said to be one of the Blackest towns in Mexico.
Before 2020, when Afro-Mexicans were counted for the first time in the national census, a 2015 survey from Mexico’s statistics institute estimated the Afro-Mexican population at 1.3 million. Since the census, an estimated 2.5 million people have self-identified themselves as Afro-Mexican.
Cuajinicuilapa, which sits in the Costa Chica region, is one of several regions in Mexico with the highest population of people of African descent, with an estimated 229,661 Afro-Mexicans. The other states include Oaxaca, with an estimated 100,000, Baja California Sur with an estimated 75,000, and Veracruz along the Gulf coast with an estimated 50,000.
“In the past, this population has been counted among the indigenous populations even though they have no unique language,” an analysis from Patricia Ann Talley and Candelaria Donaji Mendez Tello, reads. “Therefore, government representation, resource allocations, and other public services have not been equitably distributed to their communities.”
According to historians, Mexico, known as New Spain in the sixteenth century, likely had more enslaved Africans than any other colony in the Western Hemisphere. The slave trade brought an estimated 250,000 to the colony to work on cocoa and cotton plantations, as well as in livestock farming.
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