San Lucas Camotlán

San Lucas Camotlán
Municipality an toun
San Lucas Camotlán is located in Mexico
San Lucas Camotlán
San Lucas Camotlán
Location in Mexico
Coordinates: 16°57′N 95°43′W / 16.950°N 95.717°W / 16.950; -95.717Coordinates: 16°57′N 95°43′W / 16.950°N 95.717°W / 16.950; -95.717
Kintra Mexico
StateOaxaca
Area
 • Total127.58 km2 (49.26 sq mi)
Population
 (2005)
 • Total2,524
Time zoneUTC-6 (Central Staundart Time)
 • Summer (DST)UTC-5 (Central Daylicht Time)

San Lucas Camotlán is a toun an municipality in Oaxaca in sooth-wastren Mexico. The municipality covers a aurie o 127.58 km². It is pairt o the Sierra Mixe destrict athin the Sierra Norte de Oaxaca Region.[1]

As o 2005, the municipality haed 518 hoosehaulds wi a total population o 2,524 o whom 2,168 spoke a indigenous leid. Aboot 90% o the population is engagit in agricultur, an 10% in ainimal husbandry.[1] The Union o Indigenous Commonties o the Isthmus Region, a cooperative foondit in 1982, assists in production an distribution o the local products, notably coffee, unner a fair trade label.[2]

References

[eedit | eedit soorce]
  1. a b "San Lucas Camotlán". Enciclopedia de los Municipios de México. Instituto Nacional para el Federalismo y el Desarrollo Municipal. Archived frae the original on 11 December 2004. Retrieved 12 Juin 2009.
  2. "Union of Indigenous Communities of the Isthmus Region" (PDF). GPIAtlantic. Retrieved 18 Julie 2010.