A majestic row of five circular pyramids known as yácatas dominates a promontory overlooking Lake Pátzcuaro in the western Mexican state of Michoacán. Embodying the former might of the Purépecha ...

After the Parícutin volcano erupted in the 1940s, the Mexican village of Nuevo San Juan Parangaricutiro was rebuilt, shaping a forest management model that today has 12 community enterprises. In a ...

For more than a millennium, a stone pyramid stood watch over the ancient settlement of Ihuatzio in western Mexico. Built by ...

Elías and her husband, farmworker Audelio Díaz, are members of a Mexican indigenous group known as the Purépecha. Since December of last year, they have played integral roles in the community’s ...

The Indigenous Purépecha community that worshipped at the St James the Apostle church in Nurio, in the Mexican state of Michoacán—which was destroyed by fire last week—should be in charge of deciding ...

Groundbreaking lidar scanning reveals the true scale of Angamuco, built by the Purépecha from about 900AD Archaeology might evoke thoughts of intrepid explorers and painstaking digging, but in fact ...

Walking into Purépecha for the seven-course dinner usually means escorting yourself through the front dining room, past the bathrooms, and through the door in back, where you’ll find an open kitchen ...

When researchers surveyed the ruins of a Purépecha Empire city in Mexico the old-fashioned way a decade ago, it took them two seasons to explore two square kilometres. Good thing they decided to use ...