Miahuatlán de Porfirio Díaz is a toun an municipality in Oaxaca in sooth-eastren Mexico. The municipality covers a aurie o 326.6 km², an is at a average elevation o 1,600 metres.
Miahuatlán de Porfirio Díaz | |
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Municipality an toun | |
Coordinates: 16°19′N 96°35′W | |
Kintra | Mexico |
State | Oaxaca |
Area | |
• Total | 326.6 km2 (126.1 sq mi) |
Population (2005) | |
• Total | 32,185 |
Time zone | UTC-6 (Central Staundart Time) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC-5 (Central Daylicht Time) |
It is pairt o the Miahuatlán Destrict in the sooth o the Sierra Sur Region. As o 2005, the municipality haed 6,708 hoosehauds wi a total population o 32,185, o whom 2,517 spoke a indigenous leid.[1] The name comes frae the Nahuatl Miahuatlán: Miahua (ear o corn) an tlan (place or aurie). Durin the Aztec period the toun wis kent as Miahuapan Miahuatlán, "Canal o the Corn Tassel".[2]
The ceety haes 16 kindergartens, 12 primar schuils, a technical heich schuil an a general seicontar schuil an a regional varsity. It haes a radio station, a telly station, telephone service, telegraph an a post office.[1]
The Battle o Miahuatlán teuk place near the toun on 3 October 1866, a important militar action in which the Mexican republican troops defeatit a lairger force o troops o the Seicont Mexican Empire.[3] The battle is celebratit in a annual holiday on the date it teuk place.[1]
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