In 2000, an attempt was made to count indigenous ethnicities, regardless of language spoken.
It occurs each July and features dance, music, theatre and much more from all of the state's 16 recognized indigenous ethnicities.
Most of these villagers are members of one of the indigenous ethnicities.
There are about 5400 people who speak an indigenous language, with thirty eight different indigenous ethnicities present.
ManjeeriColony is a colony built by the government for the Cholanaikkan, an indigenous forest-dwelling ethnicity.
However, from the Aztec period to the 20th century, it was sparsely populated and very poor, with one main indigenous ethnicity, the Otomis.
One reason for this is its many indigenous ethnicities who produce traditional items out of identity as well as commercial reasons.
No indigenous ethnicity are known to have settled there.
Less than 3% of the population of the municipality is of pure indigenous ethnicity according to the Census.
The Chachapoyas were devastated by the 18th century and remain as a strain within general indigenous ethnicity in modern Peru.