Some statistical data (Source: PueblosAmerica.com. - Information and data from 2018)
The autonomous community of Guadalupe Ocotán is located in the Municipality of La Yesca, in the State of Nayarit. Guadalupe Ocotán is 1080 meters above sea level.
In the community are 1051 inhabitants, 515 men and 536 women. People from outside the State of Nayarit account for 6.47% of the total population. 8.47% of the inhabitants are illiterate (5.44% of the men, and 11.38% of the women). The average school enrolment ratio is 6.74 (7.23 of the men, and 6.30 of the women).
97.81% of the population is indigenous, and 83.16% of the inhabitants speak one of the indigenous languages. 3.24% of the population speaks one of the indigenous languages, but not Spanish.
25.98% of the inhabitants (more than 12 years) are economically active (44.27% of the men, and 8.40% of the women).
In Guadalupe Ocotán there are 258 dwellings. 85.24% of the dwellings have electricity, 96.19% have piped water, 53.81% have toilet or restroom, 41.90% have a radio receiver, 51.90% a television, 27.62% a fridge, 6.67% a washing-machine, 10.00% a car or a van, 1.43% a personal computer, 0.00% a landline telephone, 0.00% mobile phone, and 0.00% Internet access. |
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Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the newly elected president of Mexico (next to his wife in the middle of the picture), told local residents back in 2016 that " the irrefutable evidence of corruption in Mexico is the absurdity that there are hydroelectric dams in the municipality of La Yesca, but there is no electricity in the Huichol communities and the towns of the municipality". Guadalupe Ocotán, municipio de La Yesca, Nayarit, 02 de octubre de 2016 |
Some historical data
Guadalupe Ocotán, Xatsitsarie, originally was an annex of San Andrés Cohamiata in the north-western area of the state of Jalisco, an area that its political class hardly took notice of. In 1961 it became an independent indigenous community of 25.000 hectares, under the control of the mestizo ranchers of Huajimic, in the state of Nayarit. These had labored for decades to incorporate it by all means, including setting up the original people of Xatsitsarie against their Huichol brethren from neighbouring towns and newcomers, leading to murder and manslaughter. But in the end the Huichols prevailed and in 1985 some 60% of the territory was restituted to San Andres, even though Guadalupe Ocotán remained in Nayarit.
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