 Remittances sent by relatives from there now form most of the municipality's economy.Landa de Matamoros sits at the foot of a chain of small mountains with crags at an altitude of 1,040m  just off Highway 120 about 210 km from the capital of Querértaro.The town of Landa de Matamoros is considered to have first been occupied by a group of Purépecha from Michoacán who migrated north.