The Purepecha of Mexico, numbering approximately 201,000 people, are Engaged yet Unreached. They are descendants of the Tarascan Empire, a Mesoamerican civilization on Lake Patzcuaro that was among the few to resist Aztec conquest and became known for advanced copper and silver metalworking before falling to the Spanish in 1530. They mostly adhere to Folk Catholicism and Spanish is their primary language.