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 The Wixarikas indigenous people, currently known as Huichols, inhabit the central West of Mexico in the Sierra Madre Occidental, mainly in the States of Jalisco, Nayarit, Durango and Zacatecas. They call themselves Wixarica or 'the people' in their language called by linguists Wixaritari or Vaniuki (known as the Huichol language), which belongs to the Uto-Aztec language family. The ethnonym Huichol was given by the Mexicas in a derogatory way to the Wixarrikas since before the Spanish Conquest.

The Wixaritari speak a language of the Cora-Chol group that is The Wixarikas indigenous people, currently known as Huichols, inhabit the central West of Mexico in the Sierra Madre Occidental, mainly in the States of Jalisco, Nayarit, Durango and Zacatecas. They call themselves Wixarica or 'the people' in their language called by linguists Wixaritari or Vaniuki (known as the Huichol language), which belongs to the Uto-Aztec language family. The ethnonym Huichol was given by the Mexicas in a derogatory way to the Wixarrikas since before the Spanish Conquest.