Magdalena Mixtepec

Magdalena Mixtepec
Municipality and town
Magdalena Mixtepec is located in Mexico
Magdalena Mixtepec
Magdalena Mixtepec
Location in Mexico
Coordinates: 16°54′N 96°54′W / 16.900°N 96.900°W / 16.900; -96.900
Country Mexico
StateOaxaca
Area
 • Total11.48 km2 (4.43 sq mi)
Population
 (2005)
 • Total1,101
Time zoneUTC-6 (Central Standard Time)
 • Summer (DST)UTC-5 (Central Daylight Time)

Magdalena Mixtepec is a town and municipality in Oaxaca in south-western Mexico. The municipality covers an area of 11.48 km². It is part of the Zimatlán District in the west of the Valles Centrales Region.

A civil congregation existed in the town around the turn of the 16th and 17th centuries.[1] The town was previously known as Magdalena Tepex Zimatlán, but was renamed as the parish of Santa Cruz de Mixtepec.[2]

Demography

As of 2005, the municipality had a total population of 1,101.[3] There are a handful of the near-extinct Asunción Mixtepec Zapotec language speakers remaining in the town.[4]

References

  1. ^ William B. Taylor (1972). Landlord and Peasant in Colonial Oaxaca. Stanford University Press. p. 26. ISBN 978-0-8047-0796-1.
  2. ^ Los Municipios de Oaxaca. Secretaría de Gobernación. 1988. p. 267.
  3. ^ "Magdalena Mixtepec". Enciclopedia de los Municipios de México. Instituto Nacional para el Federalismo y el Desarrollo Municipal. Archived from the original on December 11, 2004. Retrieved June 12, 2009.
  4. ^ Mark A. Sicoli; University of Michigan (2007). Tono: A linguistic ethnography of tone and voice in a Zapotec region. University of Michigan. p. 41.
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