The Purépecha are a group of indigenous people from the northwestern region of Michoacán, Mexico. Lidar scans from aircraft (pictured) have revealed some of their cities.

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A Purepecha Indigenous woman lights a copal incense during a rest stop in the mountains by a group walking from Erongaricuaro, where residents kept a flame alive for one year, to Ocumicho in ...

The Purepecha people of Mexico built a large empire in what is now the western state of Michoacan, beating back the Aztecs at a shared border and resisting Spanish colonization until European ...

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.

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.