Miahuatlán de Porfirio Díaz
Miahuatlán de Porfirio Díaz | |
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Municipality an toun | |
  Miahuatlán de Porfirio Díaz Location in Mexico | |
| Coordinates: 16°19′N 96°35′W / 16.317°N 96.583°WCoordinates: 16°19′N 96°35′W / 16.317°N 96.583°W | |
| Kintra |  Mexico |
| State | Oaxaca |
| Area | |
| • Total | 326.6 km2 (126.1 sq mi) |
| Population (2005) | |
| • Total | 32,185 |
| Time zone | UTC-6 (Central Staundart Time) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-5 (Central Daylicht Time) |
Miahuatlán de Porfirio Díaz is a toun an municipality in Oaxaca in sooth-eastren Mexico. The municipality covers a aurie o 326.6 km², an is at a average elevation o 1,600 metres.
It is pairt o the Miahuatlán Destrict in the sooth o the Sierra Sur Region. As o 2005, the municipality haed 6,708 hoosehauds wi a total population o 32,185, o whom 2,517 spoke a indigenous leid.[1] The name comes frae the Nahuatl Miahuatlán: Miahua (ear o corn) an tlan (place or aurie). Durin the Aztec period the toun wis kent as Miahuapan Miahuatlán, "Canal o the Corn Tassel".[2]
The ceety haes 16 kindergartens, 12 primar schuils, a technical heich schuil an a general seicontar schuil an a regional varsity. It haes a radio station, a telly station, telephone service, telegraph an a post office.[1]
The Battle o Miahuatlán teuk place near the toun on 3 October 1866, a important militar action in which the Mexican republican troops defeatit a lairger force o troops o the Seicont Mexican Empire.[3] The battle is celebratit in a annual holiday on the date it teuk place.[1]
References
[eedit | eedit soorce]- ↑ a b c "Miahuatlán de Porfirio Díaz". Enciclopedia de los Municipios de México. Instituto Nacional para el Federalismo y el Desarrollo Municipal. Archived frae the original on 18 Julie 2011. Retrieved 12 Julie 2010.
- ↑ "Historia de Miahuatlán". miahuatlan-oax.com. Archived frae the original on 21 September 2008. Retrieved 12 Julie 2010.
- ↑ David Marley (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.