Tarascan

Tarascan or Tarasca is an exonym and the popular name for the Purépecha culture. It may refer to:

• the Tarascan State, a Mesoamerican empire until the Spanish conquest in the 1500s, located in (present-day) west-central Mexico
• the Purépecha people
• the Purépecha language

The term has pejorative connotations of "loathsomeness and disgust" when it refers to the people or their language.^[1]