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5 unusual facts about Costa Chica


Demographics of Mexico

Mexicans of African descent are particularly numerous in the Costa Chica region of Guerrero and Oaxaca, and along the coast of Veracruz.

La Mixteca

Mixteca de la Costa ("Coastal Mixteca"): the area also known as the Costa Chica, the Pacific coastline of eastern Guerrero and western Oaxaca.

Tlapanec people

In pre-Columbian times they lived in the isolated mountain area along the Costa Chica region of Guerrero, just southeast of present-day Acapulco.

Valentín Canalizo

Having been promoted to colonel, he was second in command of the brigade that pacified Jamiltepec, the Costa Chica and the Mixtecs.

XEJAM-AM

XEJAM (La Voz de la Costa Chica – "The Voice of the Costa Chica") is an indigenous community radio station that broadcasts in Spanish,



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