Beyond these specific cases, political and administrative units do not tend to coincide with
indigenous territories, even when smaller scale divisions are used. The impact on analysis is even
greater as far as indigenous peoples themselves are concerned: the Mixtecos in Mexico, forinstance, are spread over three federal states. In Panama, according to the 2000 census, 52.5% of allindigenous population resided in indigenous comarca (landholdings), while 47.5% lived elsewhere.However, although indigenous landholdings function as administrative units, only the Kuna, Ngöbeand Emberá peoples have been able to obtain legislation for their comarca. Nonetheless, the Bugléand Wounnan peoples (in the Ngöbe and Emberá districts, respectively) are demanding their owncomarcas, as are the Naso Teribe and Bri Bri peoples (IDB/ECLAC, 2005c). Also, where demarcations exist, they do not necessarily correspond to their territories. This is the case for theNgöbe people, 60% of whom live in the landholding of the same name; the great majority of the remainder live in the neighbouring provinces of Bocas del Toro and Chiriquí, with a significantpresence in the rural areas surrounding the comarca.