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Magdalena Mixtepec | |
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Municipality and town | |
  Magdalena Mixtepec Location in Mexico | |
| Coordinates: 16°54′N 96°54′W / 16.900°N 96.900°W | |
| Country |  Mexico |
| State | Oaxaca |
| Area | |
• Total | 11.48 km2 (4.43 sq mi) |
| Population (2005) | |
• Total | 1,101 |
| Time zone | UTC-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
[edit]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
[edit]- ↑ William B. Taylor (1972). Landlord and Peasant in Colonial Oaxaca. Stanford University Press. p. 26. ISBN 978-0-8047-0796-1.
- ↑ Los Municipios de Oaxaca. Secretaría de Gobernación. 1988. p. 267.
- ↑ "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.
- ↑ 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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