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cajón

box-shaped percussion instrument
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cajón

Summary

cajón ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,264 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • cajón is a type of individual percussion plaque[2].
  • cajón's Commons category is recorded as Cajon[3].
  • cajón's country of origin is recorded as Peru[4].
  • cajón's Hornbostel-Sachs classification is recorded as 111.221[5].
  • cajón's intangible cultural heritage status is recorded as cultural heritage of Peru[6].
  • cajón's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as WikiProject African diaspora[7].

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Definition and Type

cajón is a type of individual percussion plaque[2].

Why It Matters

cajón ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,264 views/month).[1] cajón has Wikipedia articles in 24 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[8] cajón is known by 28 alternative names across languages and contexts.[9]

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Direct Wikidata claims

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Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [8] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [9] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 6d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Yale lux id → concept/76b32cb4-cf0c-44a8-97a1-639d43fe8831
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|1 */ [[Property:P8189]]: 987007539491305171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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