As o 2005, the municipality haed 1,367 hoosehauds wi a total population o 4,961 o whom 56 spoke a indigenous leid. Economic activities include cultivation o corn, sesame, sorghum, melon an wattermelon, cattle fermin an production o Mezcal an tradeetional textiles. Syne the toun is locatit on Heich-gate 190, thare is some tourist trade in local handicrafts an mezcal. Thare are plans tae develop wind ferms in the municipality, but these hae met local resistance due tae the communal awnership o laund an concerns aboot the annual rental prices affered, $98 tae $117 per hectare.