Unión Hidalgo
Unión Hidalgo | |
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Municipality an toun | |
  Unión Hidalgo Location in Mexico | |
| Coordinates: 16°29′N 94°50′W / 16.483°N 94.833°W | |
| Kintra |  Mexico |
| State | Oaxaca |
| Area | |
| • Total | 132.69 km2 (51.23 sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC-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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Preparin the Tapu (cloth baw) in Unión Hidalgo
References
[eedit | eedit soorce]- ↑ 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.