San Pedro Mixtepec, Oaxaca, Mexico

:MX: San Pedro Mixtepec is a town and municipality in Oaxaca in south-western Mexico. It is part of the Juquila District in the centre of the Costa Region.

Geography The municipality is situated on the Pacific coast of Oaxaca. The climate is warm and humid. Flora is diverse, including tulips, roses, bougainvillea, cempaxóchitl, rose garden, lemon blossoms, noon platanillo, prickly pear, cedar, macuil, huanacaxtle, mahogany and palm Fruit trees include mango, banana, mamey sapote, sapodilla, coconut, lemon, rtamarindo, almond, orange and lemon lime.

Population As of 2005, the municipality had 7,881 households with a total population of 33,682 of whom 919 spoke an indigenous language.

40% of the population of the municipality is engaged in agriculture, and 20% in animal husbandry. Tourism employs 20% of the population in the port and tourist centre of Puerto Escondido and the nearby Bajos de Chila.

 

San Pedro Mixtepec has a population of over 49,780 people. San Pedro Mixtepec also forms one of the centres of the wider Juquila District which has a population of over 134,365 people.

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