Eloxochitlán de Flores Magón

Eloxochitlán de Flores Magón, formerly known as San Antonio Eloxochitlán, is a city and municipality in the Mexican state of Oaxaca. It is part of the Teotitlán District in the north of the Cañada Region. Approximately 96% of the inhabitants of the municipality speak the indigenous Mazatec language. The municipality encompasses approximately 28 km² and, as of 2005, had a population of 4,042. Franciscans arrived in about 1827 and founded the town, the first in Mazatec territory to be built by outsiders. The city is best known as the birthplace of the Mexican Revolutionary journalist and activist Ricardo Flores Magón, after whom the municipality was renamed. As municipal seat Eloxochitlán has governing authority over the following...