Welcome to Copal, Mexican Folk Art at its best Online.

Copal is a family business opened in 1991.
From the beginning we wanted the store to be different from all other craft stores or folk art galleries in Mexico, we wanted to feature exclusive and original high end quality folk art, bought from the artists and displayed in a nice and relaxed ambience, all of this with fair prices.

It was a gamble, many people thought that it was impossible, one could either have a curios shop or a stiffed gallery, there was no middle ground in the business.
For many years we were able to go along with our project successfully, unfortunately the global economic crisis dwindled our sales to the point we weren't able to keep with our quality standards. We had to close our brick and mortar store.
The good news is that the World Wide Web gives us the opportunity to keep our business online with the same total customer satisfaction policies we had in the onsite store.

This website features much more than our online store, one of our goals creating it is to share with everyone all the things we were so lucky to learn over the years about Mexican Handicrafts in the Mexican Folk Art Guide and give back to San Jose del Cabo and the Baja Peninsula a little of the much it has given us with the San Jose del Cabo Historic District Guide, where traveling information, historic buildings, San Jose history and many more facts about our charming town are listed and as a nostalgic corner, a page dedicated to our brick and mortar store and to all the friends and customers we were honored to have over the years.

We hope you enjoy your journey through our website and thank you for your kind visit.

The Copal Team

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