In México, the Huasteca Region is found in the northeast of the country, co-vering the northern part of Veracruz, south of Tamaulipas, east of San Luis Potosí and northeast of Hidalgo; in its areas of natural vegetation there is an abundant variation of wild and semi-domesticated peppers (Capsicum spp.), among which the following groups predominate: piquín, piquín huasteco, chilpaya (Tabasco), pico de paloma (ozuluamero), mirador pico de pájaro and rayado. In a lower scale, there are variants of es-pinalteco and cuaresmeño jalapeños, chile de huerta and pajarito. Collections were made of the different biological types in order to characterize them morphologically; 102 accessions were identified and characterized from semi-domesticated and wild types that belonged to 10 racial groups, with two groups, piquín and piquín huasteco, standing out as a result of their abundance.
