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San Miguel Panixtlahuaca

Field	Value
name	San Miguel Panixtlahuaca
settlement_type	Municipality and town
native_name
map_caption	Location of the municipality in Oaxaca
pushpin_map	Mexico
pushpin_label_position	above
pushpin_map_caption	Location in Mexico
subdivision_type	Country
subdivision_name	Mexico
subdivision_type1	State
subdivision_name1	Oaxaca
established_title
area_total_km2	264.1
area_land_km2
population_as_of	2005
population_total	5724
timezone	Central Standard Time
utc_offset	-6
timezone_DST	Central Daylight Time
utc_offset_DST	-5
coordinates
elevation_footnotes
postal_code_type

San Miguel Panixtlahuaca is a town and municipality in Oaxaca in south-western Mexico. It is part of the Juquila District in the center of the Costa Region. The name "Panixtlahuatl" in the Nahuatl language means "Plain of the Bridge".{{cite web

Geography

The municipality covers an area of 264.1 km2 at an altitude of 770 m above sea level. The climate is warm or temperate, with average temperatures between 22 -. The terrain is hilly, in the foothills of the Sierra Madre del Sur.

Flora and fauna

There is a wide range of flowers, edible and medicinal plants and trees.

Birds include red-billed pigeon, quail, macaw, parrot, chachalaca, parakeet, magpies, woodpeckers, eagles, crows, buzzards, owls, doves, canaries, vultures, partridges, herons and roadrunners. Wild Animals include cat, coyotes, wild boar, badgers, leopard, martens, foxes, raccoons, bobcat, porcupines, skunks, weasels, dogs, bear, anteaters, opossums, gophers and squirrels. There are coral snakes, green and black iguanas, scorpions, rattlesnakes, boa constrictors, milk snakes, thread snakes and chameleons.

Women at a meeting in San Miguel Panixtlahuaca

Population

As of 2005, the municipality had a total population of 5,724 of whom 4,903 spoke an indigenous language. Panixtlahuaca is one of the centers of the Chatino people, related to the Zapotec but with a distinct language.{{cite web Agriculture includes the coffee crop, which is exported, and rainfed maize and beans for personal consumption or for the domestic market. 10% of the population is engaged in animal husbandry.

In September 2005 the local people were resisting pressure from state authorities to grant licenses for forestry and for sand and gravel extraction. In turn, the authorities accused the villagers of harboring armed rebel gangs and attempted to annul the elections of local officials.{{cite web Further clashes with the authorities continued to occur in 2006, described as a period of terror by the local people.{{cite web |url-status = dead In April 2009, 15 trucks filled with armed federal troops surrounded the village of San Miguel Panixtlahuaca and erected road blocks to prevent anyone from entering or leaving, then combed the houses in search of weapons.{{cite web |archive-date=2013-02-21 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130221114738/http://cia.bzzz.net/oaxaca_najazd_wojska_na_san_miguel_panixtlahuaca |url-status=dead

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