Magdalena Mixtepec

Magdalena Mixtepec
Municipality and town
Magdalena Mixtepec Location in Mexico
Coordinates: 16°54′N 96°54′W / 16.900°N 96.900°WCoordinates: 16°54′N 96°54′W / 16.900°N 96.900°W
Country	Mexico
State	Oaxaca
Area
• Total	11.48 km^2 (4.43 sq mi)
Population (2005)
• Total	1,101
Time zone	Central Standard Time (UTC-6)
• Summer (DST)	Central Daylight Time (UTC-5)

Magdalena Mixtepec is a town and municipality in Oaxaca in south-western Mexico. The municipality covers an area of 11.48 km². It is part of the Zimatlán District in the west of the Valles Centrales Region

A civil congregation existed in the town around the turn of the 16th and 17th centuries.^[1] The town was previously known as Magdalena Tepex Zimatlán, but was renamed as the parish of Santa Cruz de Mixtepec.^[2]

As of 2005, the municipality had a total population of 1101.^[3] There are a handful of the near-extinct Asunción Mixtepec Zapotec language speakers remaining in the town.^[4]

References

1. William B. Taylor (1972). Landlord and Peasant in Colonial Oaxaca. Stanford University Press. p. 26. ISBN 978-0-8047-0796-1.
2. Los Municipios de Oaxaca. Secretaría de Gobernación. 1988. p. 267.
3. "Magdalena Mixtepec". Enciclopedia de los Municipios de México. Instituto Nacional para el Federalismo y el Desarrollo Municipal. Retrieved June 12, 2009.
4. Mark A. Sicoli; University of Michigan (2007). Tono: A linguistic ethnography of tone and voice in a Zapotec region. University of Michigan. p. 41.