Villa Díaz Ordaz

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Villa Díaz Ordaz
Municipality an toun
Kintra Mexico
StateOaxaca
Time zoneUTC-6 (Central Staundart Time)
 • Summer (DST)UTC-5 (Central Daylicht Time)

Villa Díaz Ordaz is a toun an municipality in Oaxaca in sooth-wastren Mexico. The municipality covers a aurie o km². It is pairt o the Tlacolula Destrict in the east o the Valles Centrales Region.

As o 2005, the municipality haed a total population o 5859.[1]

The commonty's kirk, Santo Domingo Díaz Ordaz, wis biggit in 1526 an is notit for a nummer o santos, tradeetional statues o Roman Catholic saunts. Some can be datit tae the saxteent hunderyear but are still preservit an in uise bi local ceetizens, who provide thaim wi flouers an sometimes even wi modren dolls as adjuncts, as in the image on the left.[2]

References[eedit | eedit soorce]

  1. "-". 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.
  2. Santos in Oaxaca's Ancient Churches: Santo Domingo Díaz Ordaz Archived 2012-07-21 at Archive.today. Retrieved 2012-04-13.

Coordinates: 16°58′N 96°27′W / 16.967°N 96.450°W / 16.967; -96.450