 Rope is made in Las Mesas, El Cobre, Agua de Pedro, Puerto de Ojo de Agua and Aposentos, with items such as baskets and brooms made from reeds in the municipal seat.There are various mineral deposits in the municipality with mercury having been the most extracted.There were 128 mines during the 1960s and early 1970s, but the demand for mercury steeply declined after the Vietnam War.