The Northwest Oaxaca Mixtec of Mexico, numbering approximately 8,500 people, are Engaged yet Unreached. They are described as an ethno-linguistic subgroup of the Mixtec, an indigenous Mesoamerican people of Mexico They are an Indigenous people, with Mixtec as their ethnic/kinship group and are in the Mixtec people cluster of the Latin American and Caribbean Peoples. Their primary religion is Folk Catholicism. They primarily speak Northwest Oaxaca Mixtec.