Country Mexico Area 326.6 km² Local time Monday 9:33 AM | State Oaxaca Population 32,185 (2005) | |
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Time zone Central Standard Time (UTC-6) Weather 17°C, Wind NE at 11 km/h, 51% Humidity | ||
Miahuatlán de Porfirio Díaz is a town and municipality in Oaxaca in south-eastern Mexico. The municipality covers an area of 326.6 km², and is at an average elevation of 1,600 meters.
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It is part of the Miahuatlán District in the south of the Sierra Sur Region. As of 2005, the municipality had 6,708 households with a total population of 32,185, of whom 2,517 spoke an indigenous language. 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".
The city has 16 kindergartens, 12 primary schools, a technical high school and a general secondary school and a regional university, Universidad de la Sierra Sur. It has a radio station, a television station, telephone service, telegraph and a post office.
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.