Tarascan
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Tarascan or Tarasca is an exonym and the popular name for the Purépecha culture. It may refer to:
- the Tarascan State, a Mesoamerican empire until the Spanish conquest in the 1500s, located in (present-day) west-central Mexico
- the Purépecha people
- the Purépecha language
The term has pejorative connotations of "loathsomeness and disgust" when it refers to the people or their language.[1]