Other small towns and villages included in the municipality are La Esperanza, San Juan Palmira, and El Tepehuaje.

Residents of Chavinda have found seasonal employment in the Napa Valley of California via the United States' H-2A temporary agricultural workers' visa program.

During the second half of the last century, Chavinda reached a self-sufficient local economy that unjusted[clarification needed] when the train arrived at the population in 1899.

This caused the municipality to open up to the national market and to change land tenure and some impetus to agriculture in the region.

The various events that took place in the early twentieth century in Mexico (the Mexican Revolution, the Cristero War, etc.)