Miahuatlán de Porfirio Díaz is a town and municipality in Oaxaca in south-eastern Mexico.
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) |
Geography
editThe 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
editAs 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
editThe 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
editThe 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
editIt 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.