Miahuatlán de Porfirio Díaz
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Miahuatlán de Porfirio Díaz is a town and municipality in Oaxaca in south-eastern Mexico.
Geography
The municipality covers an area of 467.4 km², and is situated at an average elevation of 1,600 meters.
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Miahuatlán is part of the Miahuatlán District in the south of the Sierra Sur Region.
Demography
As of 2005, the municipality had 6,708 households with a total population of 32,185, of whom 2,517 spoke an indigenous language.[2]
Etymology
The name comes from the Nahuatl Miahuatlán: Miahua (ear of corn) and tlan (place or area). During the Aztec period the town was known as Miahuapan Miahuatlán, "Canal of the Corn Tassel".[3]
Education
The city has 16 kindergartens, 12 primary schools, a technical high school, a general secondary school, and a regional university, Universidad de la Sierra Sur.
Infrastructure and media
It has a radio station, a television station, telephone service, telegraph and a post office.[2]
History
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The Battle of Miahuatlán took place near the town on 3 October 1866, an important military action in which the Mexican republican troops defeated a larger force of troops of the Second Mexican Empire.[4] The battle is celebrated in an annual holiday on the date it took place.[2]
In March 1886, an area near Miahuatlán received 183 centimetres (72 in) of snow.[5]
References
- ^ Citypopulation.de
- ^ a b c "Miahuatlán de Porfirio Díaz". Enciclopedia de los Municipios de México. Instituto Nacional para el Federalismo y el Desarrollo Municipal. Archived from the original on 18 July 2011. Retrieved 12 July 2010.
- ^ "Historia de Miahuatlán". miahuatlan-oax.com. Archived from the original on 21 September 2008. Retrieved 12 July 2010.
- ^ Marley, David (1998). Wars of the Americas: a chronology of armed conflict in the New World, 1492 to the present. ABC-CLIO. p. 561. ISBN 0-87436-837-5.
- ^ "Untitled article". The Galveston Daily News. 24 March 1886. p. 3.
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- Miahuatlán de Porfirio Díaz
- Monjas
- San Andrés Paxtlán
- San Cristóbal Amatlán
- San Francisco Logueche
- San Francisco Ozolotepec
- San Ildefonso Amatlán
- San Jerónimo Coatlán
- San José del Peñasco
- San José Lachiguirí
- San Juan Mixtepec, Miahuatlán
- San Juan Ozolotepec
- San Luis Amatlán
- San Marcial Ozolotepec
- San Mateo Río Hondo
- San Miguel Coatlán
- San Miguel Suchixtepec
- San Nicolás
- San Pablo Coatlán
- San Pedro Mixtepec, Miahuatlán
- San Sebastián Coatlán
- San Sebastián Río Hondo
- San Simón Almolongas
- Santa Ana
- Santa Catarina Cuixtla
- Santa Cruz Xitla
- Santa Lucía Miahuatlán
- Santa María Ozolotepec
- Santiago Xanica
- Santo Domingo Ozolotepec
- Santo Tomás Tamazulapan
- Sitio de Xitlapehua