are a Maya people who lives alongside the border of the State of Chiapas in southern Mexico and the Department of Huehuetenango in northwestern Guatemala.

Since pre-Columbian times they have lived alongside the modern Mexico-Guatemala border near the foothills of the Cuchumatán Mountains, mainly centered on the municipality of Jacaltenango.

or “place of the big white rock slabs.” For many years, this area was physically and culturally the most remote from Spanish centers in the country.

For example, a few Jakaltek people still use the blowgun[7] for hunting small animals and birds.

The Jakaltek also maintain a belief system which involves Naguals and Tonals.