Ejutla de Crespo

Ejutla de Crespo
Municipality
Heroica Ciudad de Ejutla de Crespo
The Kirk o San Miguel in Ejutla
Eik-name(s):  Ejutla
Ejutla de Crespo
Coordinates: 16°34′02″N 96°43′51″W
Kintra	Mexico
State	Oaxaca
Foundit	524
Elevation of seat	1460 m (4,790 ft)
Population  (2005)Municipality
• Total	17,232
• Seat	7460
Time zone	UTC-6 (CST)
Postal code (of seat)	71500

Ejutla de Crespo is a ceety an a municipality o the same name, in the central glens o the Mexican state o Oaxaca. It is pairt o the Ejutla Destrict in the sooth o the Valles Centrales Region.

"Ejutla" is frae the Nahuatl exotl and tla, meanin "place o abundant green beans"; "Crespo" is for Fr. Manuel Sabino Crespo, who focht alangside Morelos in the War o Unthirldom an wis executit on 19 October 1815 an in whose memory the State Congress decreed a chynge in the name frae Villa de Ejutla tae Heroica Ciudad de Ejutla de Crespo on 11 December 1885.

The toun

The dounset wis oreeginally foondit in 524 bi the Zapotecs unner Meneyadia.

The municipality

As municipal seat, Ejutla haes govrenin jurisdiction ower the follaein commonties:

Agua Rica, Ampliación del Progreso, Barranca Larga, Barrio Chino, Cerro Yaniche, El Arrogante Justo Benítez, El Cabrito, El Cerro de las Huertas, El Palenque, El Progreso (Barrio de Coapa), El Puente, El Saúz, El Tortuguero, El Vergel, Guelaxico, Hacienda Vieja, Higo Mocho (Piedra Cuache), La Capilla, La Cieneguilla, La Ermita, La Escalera, La Lobera, La Noria, La Noria de Ortiz, Los Ocotes, Monte del Toro, Nuevo Venustiano Carranza, Rancho Brujo (El Brujo), Rancho Nogal (Los Jarquines), Rinconada de San Diego, San Joaquín, San Juan Coatecas Bajas, San Juan Logolava, San Matías Chilazoa, Santa Cruz Nexila, Santa Marta Chichihualtepec, and Yegoseve

Freemit airtins

• Santos in Oaxaca's Ancient Churches: San Miguel Ejutla - Art-historical study of the statues in the church.