Santa María Jacatepec

Santa María Jacatepec
Santa María Jacatepec
Coordinates: 17°51′N 96°12′W
Kintra	Mexico
State	Oaxaca
Municipality	Santa María Jacatepec
Time zone	UTC-6 (CST)

Santa María Jacatepec is a toun an municipality locatit in the state o Oaxaca. “Jacatepec” comes frae Nahuatl meanin ‘on jackal hill.’ It is pairt o the Tuxtepec Destrict o the Papaloapan Region, an is anerly 30 metres abuin sea level.

The toun

The toun haed its oreegins when the residents o San Juan Palantla needit tae escape a epidemic that devastatit the veelage. First they established a veelage they cried Valle Real; housomeivver, acause o the place’s bad location, they muivit on tae several fermin auries cried San Pedro Ozumasín, San Mateo Yetla an Santa María Jacatepec an aw. The last wis established as a toun in 1650 an then as at municipality in 1896.

Near the toun are 3 springs cried Tzul Zul, Paraíso Escondido an Arroyo Blanco which hae been convertit intae recreational pairks.

The municipality

As municipal seat, Jacatepec haes govrenin authority ower the follaein commonties:

Boca de Perro, Cerro Caballo, Cerro Concha, Cerro de Viento, Cinco de Oro, Colonia Emiliano Zapata, Ejido Adalberto Vélez, El Diamante, El Fortín II, El Guayabo, El Hule (La Hulera), El Porvenir, Emiliano Zapata, La Florida, La Joya de Santa María, Lacatepec, La Nueva Esperanza, La Nueva Soledad, La Reforma, La Soledad, Loma del Carmen, Macedonio Alcalá, Nuevo Faisán, Nuevo Málzaga, Rancho Alegre, Rancho Faisán, Rancho Gavilán, Rancho Manantial, San Agustín, San Lorenzo, San Martín, Santa Sofía, Vega del Sol, an Vuelta Abajo (Lucero Alto)

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