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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.
The government of the municipality corresponds to the City Council which is made up of the Municipal President, a Syndic and 16 Councillors; all are elected by free, direct and secret popular vote for a period of three years, not re-eligible for the immediate period but discontinuously, and they enter to exercise their positions on September 17 ...
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).
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 Moorish sovereign movement, sometimes called the indigenous sovereign movement or the Rise of the Moors, is a small sub-group of sovereign that mainly holds to the teachings of the Moorish Science Temple of America, in that African Americans are descendants of the Moabites and thus are "Moorish" by nationality, and Islamic by faith.
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.