Santiago Juxtlahuaca

Santiago Juxtlahuaca
Municipality an toun
Location of the municipality in Oaxaca
Kintra	Mexico
State	Oaxaca
Area
• Total	583.05 km2 (225.12 sq mi)
Elevation	1690 m (5,540 ft)
Population  (2005)
• Total	33,401
Time zone	UTC-6 (Central Staundart Time)
• Summer (DST)	UTC-5 (Central Daylicht Time)

Santiago Juxtlahuaca is a toun an municipality in Oaxaca in sooth-wastren Mexico. It is in the Juxtlahuaca Destrict o the Mixteca Region.

Town

The toun is at a hicht o 1,690 metres abuin sea level. It is ane o the auldest touns in the Mixteca region o Oaxaca, datin back tae the 12t century AD. The first Spainyie visitor wis the Dominican friar Gonzalo Lucero, who passed throu in the year 1536 on a jurney o sploration. Three years later, the monk Benito Hernández persuadit the natives tae muive tae a new location, foondit on 13 September 1542. Atween 1600 an 1633 the toun wis muivit tae its current location in the north o the valley, wi the first streets laid oot in the Spaingie style. The toun wis periodically shaken bi yirdquauks durin the colonial period, destroyin kirks an ither major biggins. The toun wis connectit tae the ootside warld bi a telegraph line in Mairch 1883. A landwart halth centre wis established in Apryle 1938, an in 1944 an airfield wis opened.

Municipality

The municipality covers a aurie o 583.05 square kilometre (225.12 sq mi). As o 2005, the municipality haed a tot population o 33,401 in 6,165 hoosehaulds. O thir, 20,648 fowk spoke a indigenous leid.

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