Santa Cruz de Bravo
Santa Cruz de Bravo | |
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Municipality an toun | |
  Santa Cruz de Bravo Location in Mexico | |
| Coordinates: 17°34′54″N 98°13′23″W / 17.58167°N 98.22306°W | |
| Kintra |  Mexico |
| State | Oaxaca |
| Area | |
| • Total | 112.27 km2 (43.35 sq mi) |
| Population (2005) | |
| • Total | 379 |
| Time zone | UTC-6 (Central Staundart Time) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-5 (Central Daylicht Time) |
Santa Cruz de Bravo is a toun an municipality in Oaxaca in sooth-wastren Mexico. The municipality covers a aurie o 112.27 km² at an average hicht o 1,640 metres abuin sea level. It is pairt o the Silacayoapam Destrict in the Mixteca Region.[1]
As o 2005, the municipality haed 86 hoosehaulds wi a total population o 379, o whom 12 spoke indigenous leids. The main toun, oreeginally Rancho Santa Cruz, is namit efter Leonardo Bravo, faither o Nicolás Bravo, ane o the heroes o the wars o unthirldom. It is locatit on the main road frae Silacayoapam tae Mariscala de Juárez. The climate is temperate. 90% of the population are engaged in agriculture, mainly growing corn and beans, with some raising livestock in their back yards.[1]
References
[eedit | edit soorce]- 1 2 "SANTA CRUZ DE BRAVO". Enciclopedia de los Municipios de México. Instituto Nacional para el Federalismo y el Desarrollo Municipal. Archived frae the original on 11 December 2004. Retrieved 12 Juin 2009.