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San Bartolomé Quialana

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Country
  
Mexico

Area
  
49.76 km²

Local time
  
Saturday 6:37 AM

State
  
Oaxaca

Population
  
2,485 (2005)

San Bartolomé Quialana

Time zone
  
Central Standard Time (UTC-6)

Weather
  
13°C, Wind NW at 6 km/h, 46% Humidity

San Bartolomé Quialana is a town and municipality in Oaxaca in south-western Mexico. The municipality covers an area of 49.76 km². It is part of the Tlacolula District in the east of the Valles Centrales Region.

Map of San Bartolom%C3%A9 Quialana, Oaxaca, Mexico

As of 2005, the municipality had a total population of 2485.

Women in the area wear traditional clothing.

Quialana is a Zapotec word that means "black rocks" or "blackened rocks." This is associated with the fact that there is a rocky hill in the area which is called Picacho or Yubda (in Zapotec, "Sun Rock).

References

San Bartolomé Quialana Wikipedia