Tarahumara people

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The Tarahumara people are an Indigenous group of northern Mexico’s Sierra Madre Occidental, renowned for their long-distance running abilities and traditional semi-nomadic lifestyle.

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Tarahumara people canonical 10
Tarahumara 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Indigenous people
Native American people
Uto-Aztecan people
ethnic group
alsoKnownAs Rarámuri
autonym Rarámuri
climateRegion Sierra Madre Occidental
surface form: Sierra Madre highlands
continent North America
country Mexico
culturalPractice ball races
corn beer feasts
ritual running
economicActivity handicrafts
small-scale farming
footwear huarache sandals
geographicFeature Copper Canyon
handicrafts textiles
wood carvings
woven baskets
language Tarahumaran languages
surface form: Tarahumara language
languageFamily Uto-Aztecan languages
notableIn endurance sports literature
populationRegion Sierra Tarahumara
primaryRegion Sierra Madre Occidental
primaryState Chihuahua
recognizedAs Indigenous people of Mexico
relatedGroup Tepehuan people
surface form: Tepehuán people
religion syncretic Catholicism
traditional indigenous beliefs
renownedFor copper canyon running
endurance running
long-distance running
runningStyle minimalist footwear
trail running
socialOrganization dispersed settlements
threat deforestation
drug-related violence
land dispossession
traditionalBeverage tesgüino
traditionalCrops amaranth
beans
maize
squash
traditionalHousing caves
stone houses
wooden cabins
traditionalLifestyle semi-nomadic
traditionalSubsistence pastoralism
subsistence agriculture

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Tepehuán relatedGroup Tarahumara people
Copper Canyon inhabitedBy Tarahumara people
Proto-Uto-Aztecan hasDescendant Tarahumara people
this entity surface form: Tarahumara
Sierra Tarahumara homelandOf Tarahumara people
Rarámuri language spokenBy Tarahumara people
Cora people areRelatedTo Tarahumara people
Tepehuan people relatedEthnicGroup Tarahumara people
Taracahitic languages usedBy Tarahumara people