Unión Hidalgo

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Unión Hidalgo
Municipality an toun
Unión Hidalgo is located in Mexico
Unión Hidalgo
Unión Hidalgo
Location in Mexico
Coordinates: 16°29′N 94°50′W / 16.483°N 94.833°W / 16.483; -94.833
Kintra Mexico
StateOaxaca
Area
 • Total132.69 km2 (51.23 sq mi)
Time zoneUTC-6 (Central Staundart Time)
 • Summer (DST)UTC-5 (Central Daylicht Time)

Unión Hidalgo is a toun an municipality in Oaxaca in sooth-wastren Mexico. It is pairt o the Juchitán Destrict in the wast o the Istmo de Tehuantepec region.[1]

The municipality covers a aurie o 132.69 km² at a average hicht o 20 meters abuin sea level. The wather is wairm, sub-humid wi simmer rains. Flora include Guanacaste, mesquite, cactus, fruit trees (mango, tamarind, coconut, papaya) an pasturs. Wild fauna includes coyote, skunk, armadillo, badger, rabbit, dove, quail, rook andiguana.[1]

As o 2005, the municipality haed 3,236 hoosehaulds wi a tot population o 12,983 o whom 7,230 spoke an indigenous leid. Economic activity includes cultivatin corn, beans, sorghum, melon an wattermelon, an ainimal husbandry includin cattle, goats, sheep, horse an poultry. Fishin is o great economic importance. Some hoosehaulds manufacture guids woven frae palms an aw. Mony o the fowk are engagit in tred an tourism.[1]

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  1. a b c "Unión Hidalgo". Enciclopedia de los Municipios de México. Instituto Nacional para el Federalismo y el Desarrollo Municipal. Archived frae the original on 22 Apryle 2006. Retrieved 14 Julie 2010.