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According to the CDI, the states with the greatest percentage of indigenous population are: [84] Yucatán, with 65.40%, Quintana Roo with 44.44% and Campeche with 44.54% of the population being indigenous, most of them Maya; Oaxaca with 65.73% of the population, the most numerous groups being the Mixtec and Zapotec peoples; Chiapas has 36.15% ...
Articles associated with the various Indigenous peoples (los pueblos indígenas) in (modern) Mexico The main article for this category is Indigenous peoples in Mexico . Subcategories
[5] [6] [7] Like most of the native names used to refer to the indigenous peoples of Mexico, the term Otomi is not native to the people to which it refers. Otomi is a term of Nahuatl origin that derives from otómitl , [ 8 ] a word that in the language of the ancient Mexica means "one who walks with arrows", [ 9 ] although authors such as ...
The name Mexico has been commonly described to be a derivative from Mexica, the autonym of the Aztec people, [17] but said affirmation is controversial as there are many competing etymologies for both terms [18] and given the fact that in many old sources, 'Mexica' simply appears as the way to call the inhabitants of the island of Mexico (where ...
Mexicans (Spanish: Mexicanos) are the citizens and nationals of the United Mexican States.The Mexican people have varied origins with the most spoken language being Spanish, but many also speak languages from 68 different Indigenous linguistic groups and other languages brought to Mexico by expatriates or recent immigration.
In the 21st century, the government of Mexico broadly classifies all Nahuatl-speaking peoples as Nahuas, making the number of Mexica people living in Mexico difficult to estimate. [4] Since 1810, the name "Aztec” has been more common when referring to the Mexica and the two names have become largely interchangeable. [5]
Monument to the Mestizaje in Mexico City, showing Hernan Cortes, La Malinche and their son, Martín Cortes, one of the first mestizos in Mexico.. When the term mestizo and the caste system were introduced to Mexico is unknown, but the earliest surviving records categorizing people by "qualities" (as castes were known in early colonial Mexico) are late-18th-century church birth and marriage ...
According to these recent investigations, 19.4% of Mexico's population self-identify as Indigenous [62] and 2.04% self-identify as Afro-Mexican, [62] [63] there is no definitive census that quantifies Mexico's white population, with estimates from the Mexican government and other contemporary sources averaging around 32%, [1] [10] [3] [4] with ...