Ejutla de Crespo
Ejutla de Crespo | |
|---|---|
Municipality | |
| Heroica Ciudad de Ejutla de Crespo | |
 The Kirk o San Miguel in Ejutla | |
| Eik-name(s): Ejutla | |
  Ejutla de Crespo | |
| Coordinates: 16°34′02″N 96°43′51″W / 16.56722°N 96.73083°W | |
| Kintra |  Mexico |
| State | Oaxaca |
| Foundit | 524 |
| Elevation of seat | 1460 m (4,790 ft) |
| Population (2005)Municipality | |
| • Total | 17,232 |
| • Seat | 7460 |
| Time zone | UTC-6 (CST) |
| Postal code (of seat) | 71500 |
Ejutla de Crespo is a ceety an a municipality o the same name, in the central glens o the Mexican state o Oaxaca. It is pairt o the Ejutla Destrict in the sooth o the Valles Centrales Region.
"Ejutla" is frae the Nahuatl exotl and tla, meanin "place o abundant green beans"; "Crespo" is for Fr. Manuel Sabino Crespo, who focht alangside Morelos in the War o Unthirldom an wis executit on 19 October 1815 an in whose memory the State Congress decreed a chynge in the name frae Villa de Ejutla tae Heroica Ciudad de Ejutla de Crespo on 11 December 1885.[1]
The toun
[eedit | eedit soorce]The dounset wis oreeginally foondit in 524 bi the Zapotecs unner Meneyadia.[1]
The municipality
[eedit | eedit soorce]As municipal seat, Ejutla haes govrenin jurisdiction ower the follaein commonties:
Agua Rica, Ampliación del Progreso, Barranca Larga, Barrio Chino, Cerro Yaniche, El Arrogante Justo Benítez, El Cabrito, El Cerro de las Huertas, El Palenque, El Progreso (Barrio de Coapa), El Puente, El Saúz, El Tortuguero, El Vergel, Guelaxico, Hacienda Vieja, Higo Mocho (Piedra Cuache), La Capilla, La Cieneguilla, La Ermita, La Escalera, La Lobera, La Noria, La Noria de Ortiz, Los Ocotes, Monte del Toro, Nuevo Venustiano Carranza, Rancho Brujo (El Brujo), Rancho Nogal (Los Jarquines), Rinconada de San Diego, San Joaquín, San Juan Coatecas Bajas, San Juan Logolava, San Matías Chilazoa, Santa Cruz Nexila, Santa Marta Chichihualtepec, and Yegoseve
References
[eedit | eedit soorce]- ↑ a b "Enciclopedia de los Municipios de Mexico Estado de Oaxaca Heroica Ciudad de Ejutla de Crespo". Archived frae the original on 18 Julie 2011. Retrieved 17 December 2012.
Freemit airtins
[eedit | eedit soorce]- Santos in Oaxaca's Ancient Churches: San Miguel Ejutla[deid airtin] - Art-historical study of the statues in the church.