The celebration each July 25 of "El Patrón Santiago" or Saint James the Great and the dancing "Tlahualiles" are internationally recognized. The sister city of Sahuayo is Lancaster, California, United States, where it is one of 3 Californian cities where residents from Sahuayo moved to in the 2000s. The city of Santa Ana, California is known as "Little Sahuayo" because of the high number of residents who hail from Sahuayo. Another community is Indio, California where large numbers of residents from Sahuayo moved to.