Otáez

Otáez
Municipal seat and town
Otáez is located in Mexico
Otáez
Otáez
Location in Mexico
Coordinates: 26°42′N 105°59′W / 26.700°N 105.983°W / 26.700; -105.983
Country Mexico
StateDurango
MunicipalityOtáez
Population
 (2010)
 • Total
871

Otáez is a town and seat of the municipality of Otáez, in the state of Durango, north-western Mexico.[1] As of 2010, the town had a population of 871.[2]

In the seventeenth century, Jesuit missionaries founded Santa María de Otaez.[3]

References

  1. ^ Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía. Principales resultados por localidad 2005 (ITER). Retrieved on December 23, 2008
  2. ^ "Otáez". Catálogo de Localidades. Secretaría de Desarrollo Social (SEDESOL). Retrieved 23 April 2014.
  3. ^ Deeds, Susan M. (1 August 2003). Defiance and Deference in Mexico's Colonial North: Indians Under Spanish Rule in Nueva Vizcaya. University of Texas Press. pp. 57–58, 146. ISBN 978-0-292-70551-7.
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