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Related ethnic groups Tepehuanes and Huicholes The Cora are an indigenous ethnic group of North Western Mexico which live in the municipality El Nayar , Rosamorada , Ruiz , Tepic , in the Mexican state of Nayarit , Mezquital in Durango and in a few settlements in the neighboring state of Jalisco .
Nayarit covers 27,815 square kilometers (10,739 sq mi), making it one of the smaller states in Mexico. [16] Nayarit is located between latitude lines 23°05' north and 20°36' south and longitude lines 103°43' east and 105°46' west. [17] Its terrain is broken up by the western ends of the Sierra Madre Occidental mountains.
Main communities where Cora is spoken in the Nayar municipality. Ethnologue distinguishes two main variants of Cora. One is called Cora del Nayar or Cora Meseño and is spoken mainly in and around the medium-altitude settlements of Mesa de Nayar and Conel Gonzales in the south of the el Nayar municipality of Nayarit, and has approximately 9,000 speakers (1993 census).
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While some countries make classifications based on broad ancestry groups or characteristics such as skin color (e.g., the white ethnic category in the United States and some other countries), other countries use various ethnic, cultural, linguistic, or religious factors for classification. Ethnic groups may be subdivided into subgroups, which ...
The Huichol (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈwit͡ʃo̞l]) or Wixárika (Huichol pronunciation: [wiˈraɾika]) [1] are an Indigenous people of Mexico living in the Sierra Madre Occidental range in the states of Nayarit, Jalisco, Zacatecas, and Durango, with considerable communities in the United States, in the states of California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas.
The main ethnic groups are the Cora, Huichol, and Tepehuan with 10,515 and 6,349 inhabitants respectively (1995). These three ethnic groups make up 81.8% of the population over the age of 5. El Nayar has 49% of all the indigenous language speakers of the state. Of the total population of 21,948, 18,215 were members of the indigenous population.
Pages in category "People from Nayarit" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. María Pilar Aquino; C.