Cumbia is one of the two national folk dances from Colombia, with Vallenato, today very popular in various Latin-American countries. One of them is the Cumbia Mexicana:
Popularized in Mexico by Luis Carlos Meyer and Carmen Rivero in the 1950s, Cumbia quickly acquired a distinctive sound through the incorporation of Rock & Roll, Mexican popular music and Cuban influences, such as the adoption of electric instruments (guitar, bass guitar, keyboards), brass ensembles, accordion.

Also exist another like the Argentine and Peruvian cumbias. less