Ixpantepec Nieves

Ixpantepec Nieves is a town and municipality in Oaxaca in south-western Mexico. The municipality covers an area of 93.14 km². It is part of the Silacayoapam District in the Mixteca Region. As of 2005, the municipality had a total population of 1371. The name Ixpantepec Nieves comes from two native words, Ixpan which means at the front, or surface, and Tepetl which means hill. Those two words together mean " The surface hill, or the hill at the front". Ixpantepec Nieves was founded in 1800 during the time when independist groups from all over the country were planning on striking against the Spanish king that ruled New Spain on that time. At first it was founded by no more than ten families that settled on the Yucuyia hill. Yacuyia means...