Santiago Niltepec
Santiago Niltepec is a toun an municipality in Oaxaca in sooth-wastren Mexico. It is pairt o the Juchitán Destrict in the wast o the Istmo de Tehuantepec region. The name means "Hill o Indigo."[1]
Santiago Niltepec | |
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Municipality and town | |
  Santiago Niltepec Location in Mexico | |
| Coordinates: 16°34′N 94°37′W / 16.567°N 94.617°WCoordinates: 16°34′N 94°37′W / 16.567°N 94.617°W | |
| Country |  Mexico |
| State | Oaxaca |
| Area | |
| • Total | 680.01 km2 (262.55 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 60 m (200 ft) |
| Population (2005) | |
| • Total | 4,961 |
| Time zone | UTC-6 (Central Standard Time) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-5 (Central Daylight Time) |
The toun is 60 meters abuin sea level. The municipality covers a aurie o 680.01 km², wattered by the Niltepec river which rises in the muntains an flows tae the lawer lagoon. The climate is tropical, wi hot simmers. Flora includes mahogany, Nopo, Guanacaste, scrub an grassland. Wildlife includes wild boar, raccoon, squirrel, armadillo an iguana.[1]
As o 2005, the municipality haed 1,367 hoosehauds wi a total population o 4,961 o whom 56 spoke a indigenous leid. Economic activities include cultivation o corn, sesame, sorghum, melon an wattermelon, cattle fermin an production o Mezcal an tradeetional textiles. Syne the toun is locatit on Heich-gate 190, thare is some tourist trade in local handicrafts an mezcal.[1] Thare are plans tae develop wind ferms in the municipality, but these hae met local resistance due tae the communal awnership o laund an concerns aboot the annual rental prices affered, $98 tae $117 per hectare.[2]
References
eedit- ↑ a b c "Santiago Niltepec". Enciclopedia de los Municipios de México. Instituto Nacional para el Federalismo y el Desarrollo Municipal. Archived frae the original on 3 Juin 2007. Retrieved 15 Julie 2010.
- ↑ Karen Trejo (14 August 2008). "Wind parks take over indigenous lands". Latinamerica Press. Archived frae the original on 7 Januar 2011. Retrieved 15 Julie 2010.