Chipilo in 1879 was a community named by locals Colonia Fernández Leal, and on October 2, 1882, immigrants from the northern Italian region of Veneto began to settle there.

In the words of a local writer, Eduardo Montagner Anguiano:[citation needed] Chipilo preserves the features, culture and dialect of the Italian origin.

For linguists, Chipilo is a treasure: the rare case of a town that is transported to another country, and that keeps its language and customs almost intact, as they were in the 19th century.

There is a Salesian convent, three schools, the Casa de Italia, a library, the presidency, a sausage, cold meat, and cheese shop, and a couple of cafes.

It is the town of the "güeros" (local nickname of 'Italians'), 2,700 inhabitants, descendants of the 424 immigrants who arrived in 1882.Most of them came from Segusino[5] and surrounding villages in the provinces of Treviso and Belluno, like Quero, Valdobbiadene, Feltre and Maser.

Sbrighi, L., Greathouse Amador, L., Preciado Lloyd (2020), "The New Perception of the Other in Chipilo, Mexico", Lengua y Migración /Language and Migration, ISSN 1889-5425, ISSN-e 2660-7166, Vol.