A Tzeltal town that transforms clay into art with it´s magic

Amatenango del Valle called in its original language Tzoíontajal “The town of the female potters”. It is located over a little elevation that dominates a fertile valley covered with corn fields.

In the art & handcrafts there is still the use of pre-Hispanic methods in the process of creating pottery and it is famous for the clay pieces that the female potters model by hand and then they cook them in the open with logs showing that with this technique  a strong pre-Hispanic upward trend.

Pots, bowls, urns, pitchers, plates, jugs, jars, […]