LOCATION FILE
Catemaco (Cerro del Mono Blanco)
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A lakeside town of about 35,000 in the Los Tuxtlas region of Veracruz, long regarded as the country's capital of witchcraft and curanderismo, drawing on Indigenous, Spanish and West African traditions.
REPORTED ACTIVITY
A local brujo launched an annual convention in 1970, known since 2008 as Ritos, Ceremonias y Artesanías Mágicas. It opens at midnight on the first Friday of March on the Cerro del Mono Blanco outside town with a black mass invoking dark forces, and runs three days with roughly 200 shamans, healers, herbalists and readers performing mass cleansings.
VISITING
The town is open to the public; the March gathering is a public event.
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