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Santiago Juxtlahuaca

Field	Value
name	Santiago Juxtlahuaca
settlement_type	Municipality and town
native_name
image_map	Santiago Juxtlahuaca en Oaxaca.svg
mapsize	300
map_caption	Location of the municipality in Oaxaca
pushpin_map	Mexico
pushpin_label_position	above
pushpin_mapsize	300
pushpin_map_caption	Location in Mexico
subdivision_type	Country
subdivision_name	Mexico
subdivision_type1	State
subdivision_name1	Oaxaca
established_title
area_total_km2	583.05
area_land_km2
population_as_of	2005
population_total	33,401
timezone	Central Standard Time
utc_offset	-6
timezone_DST	Central Daylight Time
utc_offset_DST	-5
coordinates
elevation_footnotes
elevation_m	1690
postal_code_type

Santiago Juxtlahuaca is a town and municipality in Oaxaca in southeastern Mexico. It is in the Juxtlahuaca District of the Mixteca Region.

Town

The town is at a height of 1,690 meters above sea level. It is one of the oldest towns in the Mixteca region of Oaxaca, dating back to the 12th century AD. The name Juxtlahuaca derives from the Nahuatl Xohuixtlahuacan. The name in Mixtec was Yosocuya.

In prehispanic times, when the ruler of Juxtlahuaca wished to marry, he first talked of the proposition to the girl and her parents and consulted the priests. Then a group of principales (non-ruling nobles) would give the girl gifts, and escort her to the ruler's residence, followed by a gathering of nobles and priests that night. The marriage ceremony consisted of the couple having their mantles tied together, and the groom placing a piece of tortilla and meat in the mouth of the bride, and vice versa, followed by a feast. The ruler of Juxtlahuaca was allowed to take multiple wives. The ruler could be succeeded by either his son or daughter, but they had to be the child of his first wife.

The first Spanish visitor was the Dominican friar Gonzalo Lucero, who passed through in the year 1536 on a journey of exploration. Three years later the monk Benito Hernández persuaded the natives to move to a new location, founded on 13 September 1542. Between 1600 and 1633 the town was moved to its current location in the north of the valley, with the first streets laid out in the Spanish style. The town was periodically shaken by earthquakes during the colonial period, destroying churches and other major buildings.

The town was connected to the outside world by a telegraph line in March 1883. A rural health center was established in April 1938, and in 1944 an airfield was opened.{{cite web |access-date = 6 June 2010 |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110616190802/http://www.e-local.gob.mx/work/templates/enciclo/oaxaca/municipios/20469a.htm |archive-date = 16 June 2011

Municipality

The municipality covers an area of 583.05 km2. As of 2005, the municipality had a total population of 33,401 in 6,165 households. Of these, 20,648 people spoke an indigenous language.{{cite web |access-date =13 June 2010

Map of the area

References

(1993). "A guide to the historical geography of New Spain". University of Oklahoma Press.
(1965). "Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volumes 2 and 3: Archaeology of Southern Mesoamerica". University of Texas Press.

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