 A group of Cora people photographed by Carl Sofus Lumholtz in 1896. | |
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| Mexico: 24,390 (Mexican census 2000) (figure includes members of households where at least one parent or elder is a self-declared speaker of the Cora language) | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Mexico (states of Nayarit, Jalisco, Durango), United States (Colorado, Nevada, Utah, Arizona) | |
| Languages | |
| Cora, Spanish, English | |
| Religion | |
| Syncretism, Animism, Peyotism, and Roman Catholic, Jehovah Witness | |
| 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. They call themselves náayerite (plural; náayeri singular),[1] whence the name of the present day Mexican state of Nayarit. They reside within a series of comunidades indígenas (colonial land grants) and ejidos (contemporary agricultural communes). The 2000 Mexican census reported that there were 24,390 people who were members of Cora-speaking households, these being defined as households where at least one parent or elder claims to speak the Cora language. Of these 24 thousand, 67 percent (16,357) were reported to speak Cora, 17 percent were nonspeakers, and the remaining 16 percent were unspecified with regard to their language.[2]
The Cora cultivate maize, beans, and amaranth and they raise some cattle.