Magdalena Jaltepec is a town and

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...

Oaxaca Oaxaca ( , also , , from nci, Huāxyacac ), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Oaxaca ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Oaxaca), is one of the 32 states that compose the political divisions of Mexico, Federative Entities of Mexico. It is ...

in southwestern

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. The municipality covers an area of 184.99 km². It is part of the

Nochixtlán District Nochixtlán District is located in the southeast of the Mixteca Region of the State of Oaxaca, Mexico. The main city is Asunción Nochixtlán. Municipalities The district includes the following municipalities: *Asunción Nochixtlán * Magdalena ...

in the southeast of the

Mixteca Region The Mixteca Region is a region in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico, part of the broader La Mixteca area which covers parts of the states of Puebla, Guerrero and Oaxaca. The region includes the districts of Juxtlahuaca, Silacayoapam, Huajuapan, Coixtlah ...

. As of 2005, the municipality had a total population of 3463. The community's 16th-century church boasts a number of colonial-era polychrome and other '' santos'' (statues of Roman Catholic saints).

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{{Nochixtlán District Municipalities of Oaxaca

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