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Miahuatlán de Porfirio Díaz

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name	Miahuatlán de Porfirio Díaz
settlement_type	Municipality and town
native_name
image_skyline	Ualt23001.jpg
image_caption	Universidad de la Sierra Sur
map_caption	Location of the municipality in Oaxaca
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pushpin_label_position	above
pushpin_map_caption	Location in Mexico
subdivision_type	Country
subdivision_name	Mexico
subdivision_type1	State
subdivision_name1	Oaxaca
subdivision_type2	District
subdivision_name2	Miahuatlán
established_title
area_total_km2	467.4
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area_blank1_title	Town
area_blank1_km2	15.46
population_as_of	2020 census
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population_total	50375
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population_blank1_title	Town
population_blank1	29130
population_density_blank1_km2	auto
timezone	Central Standard Time
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Miahuatlán de Porfirio Díaz is a town and municipality in Oaxaca in south-eastern Mexico.

Geography

The 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

As of 2005, the municipality had 6,708 households with a total population of 32,185, of whom 2,517 spoke an indigenous language.

Etymology

The 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".

Education

The 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

It has a radio station, a television station, telephone service, telegraph and a post office.

History

Before Spanish colonization, Miahuatlan was a Zapotec city-state, called Pelopenitza in Zapotec. It fought wars with Coatlan and Ozolotepec. It was a regional center of commerce, with its market offering local goods like amole, cochineal, and mantas as well as salt, cotton and slaves from far away. It was apparently conquered by the Aztec Empire during the reign of Moctezuma II, after which it became a provincial capital. A Mexica governor took residence and Miahuatlan paid tribute in jewels and gold dust.

In colonial times, Miahuatlan paid tribute in honey, gold dust, mantas and turkey.

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. The battle is celebrated in an annual holiday on the date it took place.

In March 1886, an area near Miahuatlán received 183 cm of snow.

References

[http://www.citypopulation.de/en/mexico/admin/oaxaca/20059/ Citypopulation.de]
"Miahuatlán de Porfirio Díaz". link. Enciclopedia de los Municipios de México. [[Instituto Nacional para el Federalismo y el Desarrollo Municipal]]
link. "Historia de Miahuatlán". miahuatlan-oax.com
(1996). "Aztec imperial strategies". Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection.
Marley, David. (1998). "Wars of the Americas: a chronology of armed conflict in the New World, 1492 to the present". ABC-CLIO.
"[https://www.newspapers.com/image/22628964/ Untitled article]". ''The Galveston Daily News''. 24 March 1886. p. 3.

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