Demographics of Mexico - Ethnic Groups

Ethnic Groups

Mexico is ethnically diverse. The second article of the Mexican Constitution defines the country to be a pluricultural state - Indigenous, Mestizo, European - originally founded upon the indigenous peoples.

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