The objectives of the present study were to assess the population structure and genetic diversity in traditional sweet cassava cultivars collected in Bbackyard^cultivations in the municipalities of Maringá, Cianorte, and Toledo, State of Paraná, Southern Brazil, using 13 SSR molecular markers. All the loci analyzed were considered polymorphic with a mean of 3.15 alleles per locus; the mean polymorphism information content (PIC) value found was 0.4598, indicating that the primers were reasonably informative and the heterozygosity amplitude observed ranged from 0.0270 (GA134) to 0.8718 (SSRY45), with a mean of 0.4762, while the mean genetic diversity obtained was 0.5407, ranging from 0.3138 (GA21) to 0.6502 (GA140). The most divergent combinations were BGM434T-BGM20M, BGM35C-BGM20M, BGM430T-BGM232M, BGM430T-BGM164M, BGM430T-BGM322M, and BGM35C-BGM164M. The analysis of population structure distributed the traditional cultivars assessed in four different groups. The analysis of molecular variance (AMOVA) estimated that 11, 15, and 74 % of the variance were between groups, between individuals within groups, and between individuals within the population as a whole, respectively. The F is (0.170) and F it (0.259) values indicated a number of heterozygotes present in the population under study lower than that necessary to reach the Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium. The genetic variability found among the traditional sweet cassava cultivars assessed was considered wide, and the groups that were most distant were mostly cultivars from Toledo and Maringá.