Xochistlahuaca
Sign in to saveXochistlahuaca is a town in Xochistlahuaca Municipality located in the southeast corner of the Mexican state of Guerrero. It is part of the state's Costa Chica region and while near the Pacific Ocean, most of the territory is mountainous. The population is dominated by the indigenous Amuzgo ethnicity, whose women are noted for their traditional hand woven garments, especially the huipil, which is made both for home use and for sale outside the area.
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Vinony's link graph records 185 inbound references to Xochistlahuaca, and connects out to Tlacoachistlahuaca Municipality, Zirándaro Municipality and Coahuayutla de Guerrero.
The entry is geolocated on the map in GRO, across 2 mapped points.
Vinony files it under Amuzgos and Populated places in Guerrero.
Vinony links it to 11 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Xochistlahuaca
- Settlement.other_name
- Sulijaá
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Town
- Settlement.total_type
- Municipality
- Settlement.image_skyline
- GFProcessionXochis05.JPG
- Settlement.image_caption
- Good Friday procession in Xochistlahuaca
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Mexico Guerrero#Mexico
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- above
- Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
- 300
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- State
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Guerrero
- Settlement.leader_title
- Municipal President
- Settlement.leader_name
- Ignacio García Nicolás
- Settlement.established_title
- Founded
- Settlement.established_title2
- Municipal Status
- Settlement.established_date2
- 1934
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 430
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Wikidata facts
- Country
- Mexico
- Located in
- Xochistlahuaca Municipality
- Area
- 430
- Elevation
- 379
- Capital of
- Xochistlahuaca Municipality
- Image
- GFProcessionXochis05.JPG
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- Xochistlahuaca
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Encyclopedic overview
10 sectionsContents
- Toponymy
- The town
- Demographics
- Culture
- History
- Geography
- Climate
- Socioeconomics
- Notable residents
- References
Xochistlahuaca is a town in Xochistlahuaca Municipality located in the southeast corner of the Mexican state of Guerrero. It is part of the state's Costa Chica region and while near the Pacific Ocean, most of the territory is mountainous. The population is dominated by the indigenous Amuzgo ethnicity, whose women are noted for their traditional hand woven garments, especially the huipil, which is made both for home use and for sale outside the area.
==Toponymy== The name Xochistlahuaca comes from the Nahuatl xochitl (flower) and ixtlahuatlan (plain); "plain of the flowers".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Xochistlahuaca” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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