Pelota_purépecha
Pelota purépecha
Indigenous Mexican sport
Pelota purépecha (Spanish for "Purépecha ball"), called Uárukua Ch'anakua ( "a game with sticks"[1]) in the Purépecha language, is an Indigenous Mexican sport similar to those in the hockey family. A common variant, distinguished as pasárutakua in Purépecha, uses a ball which has been set on fire and can be played at night.[2][3] It has a league,[1] several practicing communities[2] and about 800 players across Mexico as of 2010.[4] It is one of 150 pre-Hispanic Mexican games at risk of dying out along with Ulama.[4]