Chignahuapan counts with more than 200 workshops to carry out spheres, and these help the town since they are their main industry.

First blown glass workshop in Chignahuapan, 48 years ago.

It is credited with the opening of “Casa Méndez”, the first glass blowing workshop around 1970, with just a few employees.

Rafael Méndez Muñoz generates earnings for all the community and not just for the proprietaries of both centenaries of workshops. Its characterized for the production of unique spheres, that have the housing seal.

About the recuperation in the production of spheres, the activity that is being affected in the region for the income in the market of Chinese imitation.

The sphere reproduction represents a huge spill economic approximated of 500 millions of pesos, measured by the tourism that comes to purchasing this beautiful works.