The Yaitepec Chatino of Mexico, numbering approximately 6,700 people, are Engaged yet Unreached. They are described as a Chatino-speaking people believed to be among the earliest inhabitants of Oaxaca, whose ancestors broke away culturally and politically from the Zapotecs of Monte Alban around the time of Christ They are an Indigenous people, with Chatino as their ethnic/kinship group and are in the Zapotec people cluster of the Latin American and Caribbean Peoples. Their primary religion is Folk Catholicism. They primarily speak Western Highland Chatino.