XETPH-AM is a radio station located in Santa María de Ocotán,

Durango Durango, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Durango, is one of the 31 states which make up the Political divisions of Mexico, 32 Federal Entities of Mexico, situated in the northwest portion of the country. With a population of 1,832,650 ...

. Broadcasting on

960 AM The following radio broadcasting, radio stations broadcast on AM broadcasting, AM frequency 960 kHz: The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) classifies 960 AM as a regional frequency. CFAC is the only station in Canada and the Unite ...

, XETPH is operated by the

Sistema de Radiodifusoras Culturales Indígenas The Sistema de Radiodifusoras Culturales Indígenas (SRCI; ) is a state-owned network of radio stations in Mexico. The radio stations it operates are community radio stations that aim to serve different sectors of the country's Indigenous peoples i ...

(SRCI) of the

National Institute of Indigenous Peoples The National Institute of Indigenous Peoples (, INPI, Tzotzil language, Tzotzil: ''Instituto Ta Sjunul Jlumaltik Sventa Batsi Jnaklometik,'' Qʼeqchiʼ language, Q'eqchi': ''Molam Tk’anjelaq Chi Rixeb’ Laj Ralch’och’'', Ixil language, Ixil ...

(INPI) and is known as ''Las Tres Voces de Durango'' (The Three Voices of Durango). It is the 21st station in the SRCI system of

indigenous Indigenous may refer to: *Indigenous peoples *Indigenous (ecology) In biogeography, a native species is indigenous to a given region or ecosystem if its presence in that region is the result of only local natural evolution (though often populari ...

radio stations, coming to air on November 8, 2012 with programming in O´dam-audam,

Nahuatl Nahuatl ( ; ), Aztec, or Mexicano is a language or, by some definitions, a group of languages of the Uto-Aztecan language family. Varieties of Nahuatl are spoken by about Nahuas, most of whom live mainly in Central Mexico and have smaller popul ...

and

Wixarika The Huichol () or Wixárika () are an Indigenous people of Mexico living in the Sierra Madre Occidental range in the states of Nayarit, Jalisco, Zacatecas, and Durango, with considerable communities in the United States, in the states of Califor ...

. It was the first new SRCI AM radio station since

XENKA-AM XHNKA-FM (''La Voz del Gran Pueblo'' – "The Voice of the Great People") is an indigenous community radio station that broadcasts in Spanish and Yucatec Maya from Felipe Carrillo Puerto, in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo. It is run by the ...

signed on in 1995.

External links

XETPH website

References

Sistema de Radiodifusoras Culturales Indígenas Radio stations in Durango Radio stations established in 2012 2012 establishments in Mexico {{Durango-radio-station-stub