Miahuatlán de Porfirio Díaz
Miahuatlán de Porfirio Díaz | |
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Municipality and town | |
  Miahuatlán de Porfirio Díaz Location in Mexico | |
| Coordinates: 16°19′N 96°35′W / 16.317°N 96.583°W | |
| Country |  Mexico |
| State | Oaxaca |
| Area | |
| • Total | 467.4 km2 (180.5 sq mi) |
| • Town | 15.46 km2 (5.97 sq mi) |
| Population (2020 census)[1] | |
| • Total | 50,375 |
| • Density | 110/km2 (280/sq mi) |
| • Town | 29,130 |
| • Town density | 1,900/km2 (4,900/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC-6 (Central Standard Time) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-5 (Central Daylight Time) |
Miahuatlán de Porfirio Díaz is a town and municipality in Oaxaca in south-eastern Mexico.
Geography
[edit]The municipality covers an area of 467.4 km², and is situated at an average elevation of 1,600 meters.
Miahuatlán is part of the Miahuatlán District in the south of the Sierra Sur Region.
Demography
[edit]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
[edit]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
[edit]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
[edit]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
[edit]- ^ 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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