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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 .
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).
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.
Temple districts are all members of a larger community district. Each community district is ruled by a council of kawiterutsixi, elder men who are usually also shamans. Crafts of the Huichol include embroidery, beadwork, sombreros (hats), archery equipment, prayer arrows, and weaving, as well as "cuchuries", woven or embroidered bags.
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Map of Mexico with Nayarit highlighted Nayarit Municipalities. Nayarit is a state in western Mexico, divided into twenty municipalities.According to the 2020 Mexican census, it is the fourth least populated state with 1,235,456 inhabitants and the 23rd largest by land area spanning 27,856.5 square kilometres (10,755.5 sq mi).
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The Caxcan are an ethnic group who are Indigenous to western and north-central Mexico, particularly the regions corresponding to modern-day Zacatecas, southern Durango, Jalisco, Colima, Aguascalientes, Nayarit. The Caxcan language is most often documented as an ancient variant of Nahuatl and is a member of the Uto-Aztecan language family. The ...