Ixtepec

Ixtepec (formally: Ciudad Ixtepec; previously known as Villa de San Jerónimo Doctor) is a small city, and municipality of the same name, located in the state of Oaxaca, in southern Mexico. It is part of the Juchitán District in the west of the Istmo de Tehuantepec region. The municipality has an area of 229.65 km at an average elevation of 40 meters above sea level. The climate is warm,, with rainfall of 950 mm annually mostly falling in the summer. Average temperature is 27.4ºC, ranging from 21.5ºC to 30.7ºC. As of 2005, there were 6,481 households with a population of 24,181, of whom 4,667 spoke an indigenous language. Like Ixtaltepec, Juchitán and Tehuantepec, Ixtepec has a significant native Zapotec population. Many indigenous...