El hombre, ante el fenómeno natural que representa la muerte, ha creado una serie de acciones para demostrar que la persona muerta continúa viviendo en algún lugar desconocido; de esa manera la inmortaliza. Para ello, procura un lugar especial donde depositarla y acompañarla con las pertenencias que utilizó, incluyendo representaciones de sus deidades, del difunto y de las personas que lo rodearon en vida. ENGLISH: Mortuary Customs in Northwest Mesoamerica. Mankind, faced with the natural phenomenon of death, has created various practices expressing that our dead live on in an unknown realm, immortalized. For these customs, we have sought meaningful places in which to lay the deceased individual to rest and arrange them with their belongings – these often include religious effigies, as well as symbols of themselves and of the people who surrounded them in life.