Santiago Apoala | |
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Municipality an toun | |
Coordinates: 17°39′N 97°08′W / 17.650°N 97.133°W | |
Kintra | Mexico |
State | Oaxaca |
Area | |
• Total | 57.41 km2 (22.17 sq mi) |
Population (2005) | |
• Total | 815 |
Time zone | UTC-6 (Central Staundart Time) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC-5 (Central Daylicht Time) |
Santiago Apoala is a veelage an municipality in the state o Oaxaca, Mexico, locatit north o Oaxaca de Juárez. It is pairt o the Nochixtlán Destrict in the sootheast o the Mixteca Region.
The name “apoala” is frae Nahuatl meanin “watter that destroys”.[1] It is 1,970 meter (6,460 ft) abuin sea level. It is pairt o the Mixtec aurie o Oaxaca state an is kent bi its Mixtec name o “Yutatnoho” an aw which means “river whaur the lairds come frae”. Its foondation date is unkent but local legends say this wis ane o the first auries settled bi the Mixtecs.[2]
Thare are twa watterfaws nearbi cried Cascadas de Apoala an Cola de Serpiente (snake’s tail). Each is mair nor 50 meter (160 ft) heich an thare are nummer natural springs in the aurie.[3]
As municipal seat, the veelage o Santiago Apoala haes govrenin jurisdiction ower the follaein commonties:
Arriba de la Peña, Jazmín Morelos, San Antonio Nduayaco, Tierra Colorada, Unión Buena Vista (Yodocanit o Yodocani), an Unión Palo Solo