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Asunción Ixtaltepec

Field	Value
name	Asunción Ixtaltepec
settlement_type	Town and municipality
native_name
map_caption	Location of the municipality in Oaxaca
pushpin_map	Mexico Oaxaca#Mexico
pushpin_label_position	above
subdivision_type	Country
subdivision_name	Mexico
subdivision_type1	State
subdivision_name1	Oaxaca
leader_title2	Federal electoral district
leader_name2	[Oaxaca's 7th](7th-federal-electoral-district-of-oaxaca)
established_title
area_total_km2	547.33
area_land_km2
population_as_of	2005
population_total	14,438
timezone	Zona Centro
utc_offset	-6
coordinates
elevation_footnotes
elevation_m	30
postal_code_type	Postal code

** Asunción Ixtaltepec ** is a town and municipality in Oaxaca in southern Mexico. It is part of the Juchitán District in the west of the Istmo de Tehuantepec region. The town was founded in 1546. The name means "White Mountain".{{cite web |url-status=dead

Geography

The municipality covers an area of 547.33 km2 at an average elevation of 30 meters above sea level. The land is generally flat, with some hills, and is near the upper lagoon. It is bordered by the Los Perros river. The town is about 9 km from the city of Juchitan de Zaragoza, and is connected to the city through a branch of the Pan-American Highway. The Nizanda hot springs are located between the towns of Carrasquedo and Mena (Nizanda) in the municipality. The springs are accessible by a path beside a small river full of water lilies leading through an exuberant forest. The river originates in caves in which the hot springs arise, and has pools for bathing.{{cite web |url-status=dead

Demography

As of 2005, the municipality had 3,936 households with a total population of 14,438 of whom 6,583 spoke an indigenous language.

Economy

Economic activities include cultivation of maize, sorghum, peanuts, beans and sesame, cattle and poultry breeding, and manufacture of handmade textiles, red brick and pottery that are sold throughout the country. In January 2010 the Inter-American Development Bank approved US$102 million in partial financing for two wind facilities in the region, one of which would be in Asunción Ixtaltepec.{{cite web

Arts

A traditional form of pottery made in the Santa Rita Barrio of Ixtaltepec is the “tinaca de mujer”, a water cooler in the form of a woman made of red clay, about one meter tall or slightly larger. The figure has a bell-shaped skirt and tiny pointed breasts, and carries a shallow bowl of sand on her head in which there is a water jug decorated with lizards and perhaps turtles in low relief. The water is kept cool through evaporation. The local potters also make flower pots, plates and barrel-shaped pots with an open end for frying tortillas.{{cite web

File:Ixtaltepec Iglesia.jpg|Church of the Virgin of Asunción File:Ixtaltepec el palacio.jpg|Municipal Palace of Asunción File:Ixtaltepec parque jesus rasgado.jpg|Kiosk in the Jesus Rasgado park, of Asunción

Airport

Ixtepec Airport

References

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