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San Francisco Ixhuatán

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Country
  
Time zone
  
CST (UTC-6)

Area
  
407 km²

Population
  
9,050 (2005)

State
  
Fiestas
  
2 February, 17 October

Elevation
  
10 m

Local time
  
Saturday 10:07 AM

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Weather
  
29°C, Wind SE at 13 km/h, 66% Humidity

San Francisco Ixhuatán is a town, and the surrounding municipality of the same name, in the Mexican state of Oaxaca. It is part of the Juchitán District in the west of the Istmo de Tehuantepec region. The Nahuatl name element Ixhuatán means "town of palm fronds".

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Map of San Francisco Ixhuat%C3%A1n, Oaxaca, Mexico

The town

In 1826, Ixhuatán was already established as an ejido in the municipality of San Francisco del Mar. In 1886 it became the municipal seat and, in 1926, it was separated from San Francisco del Mar to form a new, separate municipality as a result of political and administrative conflicts. It currently has 9050 inhabitants.

San Francisco Ixhuatán is located in the south of Oaxaca, at 16°21' N, 94°29' W, at a height of 10 metres above sea level.

The municipality

The municipality covers a total of 406.99 km2. As municipal seat, San Francisco Ixhuatán has governing jurisdiction over the following communities:

Cachimbo, Cerro Chico (Cerritos), Cerro Grande, Chahuites las Conchas, Colonia Primero de Mayo, El Milagro, El Naranjal, El Porvenir, La Curva (El Crucero), La Gloria, La Herradura, La Mora, Las Palmas, Lázaro Cárdenas, Paniagua, Río Viejo, Reforma Agraria Integral, and Veinte de Noviembre (El Morro)

References

San Francisco Ixhuatán Wikipedia


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