Silacayoapam 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 ...
in
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 south-western
Mexico
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. It is part of the
Silacayoapam District in 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 ...
.
Town
Once part of the
Coixtlahuaca
Coixtlahuaca ( Chocho: ''Nguichee;'' Mixtec: ''Yodzocoo;'' Nahuatl: ''Coaixtlahuacan'') was a pre-Columbian Mesoamerican state in the Mixteca Alta (now in Oaxaca, Mexico). Coixtlahuaca was a multi-ethnic polity, inhabited by both Chochos and ...
state, after the Spanish conquest the town was officially founded in 1692.
It is at an elevation of 1,620 meters in a mountain valley in northwestern Oaxaca.
Municipality
The municipality covers an area of 417.2 km².
As of 2005, the municipality had a total population of 6,486 of whom 1,392 spoke an indigenous language, living in 1,532 households.
The main economic activity is agriculture, accounting for 80% of the economy. The main crops are corn, beans and some fruits, as well as wheat.
Some of the people raise cattle and poultry.
There is some artisan production of mezcal, brandy, woven sisal, palm and ceramics.
See also
*
San Martín del Estado
References
Municipalities of Oaxaca
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