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The Purépecha (Western Highland Purepecha: P'urhepecha [pʰuˈɽepet͡ʃa]) are a group of Indigenous people centered in the northwestern region of Michoacán, Mexico, mainly in the area of the cities of Cherán and Pátzcuaro. They are also known by the derogatory term "Tarascan", an exonym, applied by outsiders and not one they use for ...
The empire included different groups, primarily Purépecha people and additionally Matlazincas and Mazahuas in the east, Chichimecs such as Otomíes and Tecuexes in the Bajio, Cocas around Lake Chapala, Chontales de Guerrero/Tuxtecos around the Balsas River valley, Chumbios around Zacatula, and Nahuas both on the Pacific coast and in the heartland.
The Purépecha people dominated a large territory that included areas within the modern-day States of Michoacán, Guanajuato, Querétaro, part of Jalisco, and Guerrero. They were an indomitable race that resisted the onslaught of the Aztecs, who could never dominate them, but who, due to their astronomical predictions, voluntarily submitted to ...
Purépecha copper and brass objects in the site museum. Tzintzuntzan was the capital of the Purépecha Empire when the Spanish arrived in 1522. [7] As these people did not leave written records, what we know of this city and its empire come from Spanish writings and archeological evidence.
When researchers surveyed the ruins of a Purépecha Empire city in Mexico the old-fashioned way a decade ago, it took them two seasons to explore two square kilometres. Good thing they decided to ...
Guided by their ancestral lunar calendar, members of Mexico’s Purepecha Indigenous group celebrated their own New Year’s Eve — a little differently than the West’s traditional New Year.
Tariácuri (fl. ca. 1350–1390) was a culture hero of the Purépecha people and one of the foremost rulers of the Purépecha Empire.Traditionally hailed as the state's founder, Tariácuri is credited with growing the Purépecha Empire from an individual city-state to the dominant power of the region.
Activists from Mexico’s Purepecha people used axes and sledgehammers Monday to knock down statues of their ancestors being forced to haul and work stones by a colonial-era Spanish priest. The ...