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Tanetze de Zaragoza

Field	Value
name	Tanetze de Zaragoza
settlement_type	Municipality and town
native_name
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
subdivision_type2	District
subdivision_name2	Villa Alta District
established_title
area_total_km2	58.69
area_land_km2
population_as_of	2005
population_total	1,581
timezone	Central Standard Time
utc_offset	-6
timezone_DST	Central Daylight Time
utc_offset_DST	-5
coordinates
elevation_m	1,280
postal_code_type

From left to right: Tanetze de Zaragoza, San Isidro Reforma, Juquila Vijanos Santo Domingo Cacalotepec

Tanetze de Zaragoza is a town and municipality in Oaxaca in south-western Mexico. It is part of the Villa Alta District in the center of the Sierra Norte Region. The name "Tanetze" means "hill of thorns".{{cite web |url-status = dead

Geography

The municipality covers an area of 58.69 km2 in mountainous terrain. The town is at an elevation of 1,280 meters above sea level. The climate is cool, with prevailing winds from the north. Flora include pines and oaks, mamey, orange, mango and sapote. Wild fauna includes eagle, buzzard, deer and owls, wild boar and wild cat, rattlesnakes, and coral snakes.

Population

As of 2005, the municipality had 431 houses with a total population of 1,581 of whom 1,327 spoke an indigenous language. Most of the population is engaged in cultivation of maize, beans and coffee. Logging is undertaken mainly for house building materials. Houses typically have dirt floors, adobe and brick walls, tin roofs, tiles. Some of the women in the community have formed a cooperative named "Yu-Van", which means "Living Earth" in the Zapotec language. The cooperative roasts and grinds their coffee harvest and sells it in the organic market in Oaxaca City, 6 hours away.{{cite journal

The region has seen violent confrontations between the authorities and members of the Popular Indigenous Council of Oaxaca "Ricardo Flores Magón", an activist organization of indigenous people.{{cite web |archive-date=2011-06-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110611201353/http://www.nodo50.org/cipo-van/news/?view=record&cat=23&id=84 |url-status=dead |url-status = dead The Confederación Revolucionaria de Organizaciones Campesinas Unidas de Tuxtepec (CROCUT) () is also active in the area.{{cite web |archive-date=2010-10-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101031012755/http://notas.desaparecidos.org/2008/11/mex_desaparicion_de_persona_pr.html#more |url-status=dead

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