OVER 52000 CHORI FOLKS LIVE IN THE DEPARTMENT OF GUATEMALA ; 4000 LIVE IN THE DEPARTMENT OF COPAN IN HONDURAS. THEY LIVE MAIZE AND BEANS. BY 1520 THE SPANISH HAD BECOME THE PRIMARY REGIONAL POWER. WAR AND DISEASES KILLED MANY CHORTI DURING THE 16TH AND 17TH CENTURIES. THEIR CULTURAL CENTER IS COPAN WHERE ANCIENT MAYA CIVILIZATION LIVED. THE CHORTI BELONG TO MERIDIONAL MAYANS. SOME ALSO LIVE IN HONDURAS. MOST FOLKS IN COPAN SPEAK SPANISH. THEY HAVE KEPT THEIR TRADITIONAL DRESSING AND MUSIC TRADITIONS. THEY EAT PRIMARILY CORN AND BEANS, TORTILLAS AND ALCOHOLIC DRINKS. THEIR RELIGION IS BASED ON ADORING NATURE, RITUALS AND DEDICATED TO THE GODS.
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