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42 unusual facts about Oaxaca


Adolfo Toledo Infanzón

Adolfo Toledo Infanzón (born in Ciudad Ixtepec, Oaxaca on March 24, 1961), is a Mexican politician, member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party and the current Senator in the LXI Legislature of the Mexican Congress from the State of Oaxaca.

He has been Local Congressman in the LVII Legislature of the State Congress of Oaxaca, Mayor of Ixtepec, Oaxaca, General Secretary of the “Confederación Nacional Campesina” (National Rural Confederation) in Oaxaca, President of the PRI in the State of Oaxaca, member of the National Political Council of the PRI and Secretary of Agricultural, Livestock and Forest Development in Oaxaca.

He was born in Ciudad Ixtepec, Oaxaca on March 24, 1961 and studied Agricultural Engineering at the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education, he is a graduate in Political Merchandising from the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México and in Managing of Political Campaigns from the Ibero-American University.

Animas Trujano

Animas Trujano, Oaxaca, a town and municipality in Oaxaca in south-western Mexico

Antonio Cárdenas Rodríguez

Ixtepec No. 2 Air Base in Ixtepec, Oaxaca is named in honour of General Cárdenas Rodríguez.

Aviacsa

By the end of the year, the airline received a second BAe 146 and had initiated service from the two towns in Chiapas to Villahermosa, Mérida, Oaxaca, Chetumal, and Cancún.

Azteca de Gyves

Her individual exhibitions include Zoología en Azul at the Centro Cultural Juan Rulfo in Mexico City (1998), Ancestros at the Museo de Artesanías e Industrias Populares del Estado de Oaxaca (2000), Serie Marina at Galería Nutall in Oaxaca (2000), Naturaleza Nuestra at Exposiciones Pictórica in Oaxaca (2001), De Paseo con la Muerte at Galería Binni Rutié in Monterrey (2006) and Viaje a Mitla at Galería Binni Rutié (2007) .

Azteca de Gyves (b. February 16, 1963) is a Mexican artist from Juchitán de Zaragoza in the state of Oaxaca.

Celso Duarte

In 1998, he met Lila Downs while playing a festival in Oaxaca, Mexico, and since then has gained critical acclaim playing harp and violin in her band, La Misteriosa.

David Velázquez Fernández

Velazquez has presented his work in Mexico in different states such as: Jalisco, Guanajuato, Veracruz, San Luis Potosí, Monterrey, Guerrero and Oaxaca.

Edwin Scheier

The couple taught there for over 20 years before moving to Mexico to study Oaxacan Indian arts and crafts.

El Pantera

Gervasio Robles Villa, son of a white man and a Oaxacan Indian woman, is imprisoned for assassinating his fiancée, a crime that he did not commit.

Enrique Caballero Peraza

At the moment he is dedicated to his private practice and to teaching, even though it maintains entailment with the National Action of Party, in the federal electoral process of 2006, he was Operative Coordinator of Campaign in the presidential campaign of Felipe Calderón in the State of Oaxaca.

In the federal electoral process of 2009 he was Operative Coordinator of Campaign, with National Action Party in Oaxaca.

Eufrosina Cruz

When Gabino Cué Monteagudo (PAN) won the elections, Eufrosina was elected to the office of presidenta de la mesa directiva del congreso local (president of the board of the local congress), becoming the first indigenous woman to chair the state Congress of Oaxaca.

Eufrosina Cruz Mendoza (Born: 1 January 1979 in Santa María Quiegolani, Oaxaca) is a Zapotec woman from the state of Oaxaca, Mexico.

Eulogio Gillow y Zavalza

Eulogio Gregorio Clemente Gillow y Zavala was the first archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Antequera, Oaxaca located in Oaxaca de Juarez, Oaxaca, Mexico.

Gil Gutierrez

At age fourteen he began playing classical guitar in restaurants in Oaxaca and caught the attention of German born guitarist Wolfgang “Lobo” Fink of Willie & Lobo.

Headhunting

There is evidence that a tzompantli-like structure has been excavated from the Proto-Classic Zapotec civilization at the La Coyotera, Oaxaca, site, dated from c.

Jeffrey H. Cohen

Cohen's work is centered ethnographically in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca.

John Gibler

Gibler has also reported from Oaxaca for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and the international edition of the Miami Herald.

He has reported on the ground from the Zapatistas Other Campaign, the protests against electoral fraud in Mexico City, and the uprising in Oaxaca.

Johnny Hernandez

From tacos al pastor in Mexico City and tlayudas in Oaxaca to Pescado Zarandeado from the streets of Nayarit, Mexico’s street foods are as unique and colorful as its traditions, culture, and people.

Jorge Wilmot

Exhibitions have been held in Mexico City, for San Agustín Etla in Oaxaca, Guadalajara and Monterrey, sponsored by MAP and other entities.

Maarten Jansen

Jansen is an internationally renowned figure in pre-Columbian Mesoamerican studies, whose particular field of expertise concerns the culture, history and manuscripts of the Mixtec civilization from the Oaxacan region of central-southern Mexico.

Manuel de Zumaya

He served there until 1738 when he moved to Oaxaca, where he followed his close friend Bishop Tomas Montaño against the vigorous and continuous protests of the Mexico City Cathedral Chapel Council for him to stay.

Margarita Gonzalez Ontiveros

Born in Parral, Chihuahua, and raised by her mother Guadalupe Ontiveros Mardueño and a musician and band director in Oaxaca, Prospero Gonzalez.

Mario René Díaz Leyva

In 1984, he presented Tres Fotógrafos Cubanos at Capilla del Hotel Presidente, Oaxaca, Mexico.

Mexican barbasco trade

Before becoming used industrially, the tuber was used by Chinantec healers in northern Oaxaca as an abortifacient and in cures for aching joints.

This development sparked a barbasco extraction industry centered around the barbasco-rich areas of southeastern Mexico, in Northern Oaxaca, Southern Veracruz and Puebla states.

Neecy Twinem

Twinem developed a unique painting technique that bears inspiration from the native art and textiles of Oaxaca and other traditional Mexican folk art.

Nuestra Belleza Oaxaca 2010

At the conclusion of the final night of competition, Alejandra Scheremberg of the capital city Oaxaca was crowned the winner.

Nuestra Belleza Oaxaca 2011

Nuestra Belleza Oaxaca 2011, was held in the Teatro Macedonio Alcalá in Oaxaca, Oaxaca on June 3, 2011.

Oaxaca International Literary Competition

The two events are held each November in the Mexican city of Oaxaca.

Oaxaca, Mexico

The state of Oaxaca, one of the 32 component federal entities of the United Mexican States

Peter Kuper

Though permanently based in New York City, Kuper and his wife and daughter resided in the Mexican state of Oaxaca 2006–2008, where he documented an ongoing teachers' strike and other aspects of Mexico in his book Diario de Oaxaca.

Rose Zwi

Born in Oaxaca, Mexico, to Jewish refugees from Lithuania, her family moved to South Africa when she was a young girl.

Samaritan woman at the well

In Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico, a celebration of the Samaritan woman takes place on the fourth Friday of Lent.

Santiago Ventura Morales

Santiago Ventura Morales was born in 1968 and grew up in San Miguel Cuevas in the Mexican state of Oaxaca where he completed school through the sixth grade.

Sleep Dealer

The story is told as a flash back, as Memo remembers his home in Santa Ana Del Rio, Oaxaca.

Usos y costumbres

In Mexico, usos y costumbres practices are widely used by indigenous communities and are officially recognized in the following Mexican states: Oaxaca (for 412 of 570 municipalities), Sonora (for the Yaqui reservation), and Chiapas.

Ventanilla

La Ventanilla, Oaxaca, a village in Santa María Tonameca, Oaxaca, Mexico


1931 Oaxaca earthquake

Russian filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein, who was in Mexico working on a film, flew to Oaxaca shortly after the earthquake to film conditions in the affected area.

66843 Pulido

It was discovered by James M. Roe at the Oaxaca Observatory in Oaxaca, Mexico, on November 1, 1999.

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.

Dorothy Stewart

In the winter of 1955, with a grave medical condition, Stewart was accompanied by her dear friend Maria Chabot to Oaxaca, Mexico where Dorothy was quoted as saying, “If I have to be sick, I would rather be sick here where I hear the street sounds of Mexico.” As Dorothy's condition worsened, Chabot moved her to the American British Cowdry Hospital in Mexico City, where Stewart died of a brain hemorrhage on December 24, 1955.

El Signo

He was born on September 4, 1954 in Ocotlán de Morelos, Oaxaca, Mexico and trained for his professional wrestling career under Billy Robinson, Chamaco Azteca and El Carnicero.

Antonio Sánchez Rendón (both September 4, 1954 in Ocotlán de Morelos, Oaxaca, Mexico), is a retired Mexican luchador, or professional wrestler best known under the ring name El Signo (Spanish for "The Sign").

Eurasian Collared Dove

the stronghold in North America is still the Gulf Coast, but it is now found as far south as Puerto Escondido and Tehuantepec in Oaxaca, as far west as California, and as far north as Alaska, Alberta, the Great Lakes, and Nova Scotia.

Frida Kahlo Museum

The two rooms are filled with large earthenware pots, plates, utensils, glassware and more which came from Metepec, Oaxaca, Tlaquepaque and Guanajuato, all known for their handcrafted items.

Hurricane Stan

The Ministry of the Interior declared states of emergency in the worst hit municipalities of five states: Chiapas, Hidalgo, Oaxaca, Puebla, and Veracruz.

Indigenous people of Oaxaca

The Trique are an indigenous people of the western part of Oaxaca, centered in the municipalities of Juxtlahuaca, Tlaxiaco and Putla.

Ixtli Martínez

As a communicator has worked in various radio stations and local newspapers Oaxaca, has also been a correspondent in the radio news of Carlos Loret de Mola and reporter for the magazine "Contralínea" in 2008 received the award "Freedom, Woman's Word" by work and career, is currently a news correspondent for MVS and is married to journalist Virgilio Sánchez.

Jeffrey H. Cohen

Since the late 1980s he has worked in Oaxaca's central valleys region and specifically in the community of Santa Ana del Valle, documented in his book, Cooperation and Community, published in 1999 by the University of Texas Press.

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.

Laguna de Manialtepec

The Laguna de Manialtepec is a coastal lagoon about 18 km west of Puerto Escondido in the State of Oaxaca, Mexico.

Mexico

During the early post-classic Central Mexico was dominated by the Toltec culture, Oaxaca by the Mixtec and the lowland Maya area had important centers at Chichén Itzá and Mayapán.

Mimosa tenuiflora

Mimosa hostilis (Jurema, Tepezcohuite) is a perennial tree or shrub native to the northeastern region of Brazil (Paraíba, Rio Grande do Norte, Ceará, Pernambuco, Bahia) and found as far north as southern Mexico (Oaxaca and coast of Chiapas).

Natalia Toledo

Natalia Toledo Paz (Juchitán de Zaragoza, Oaxaca; 1968) is a Mexican poet in Spanish and Zapotec.

Nicolas-Joseph Thiéry de Menonville

Thiéry de Menonville, with the image of Jason and the Golden Fleece constantly in his mind's eye, slipped over the ramparts of Veracruz one evening and set out, in the guise of a Catalan in order to account for his Frenchified Spanish and his dress, for Oaxaca where the best cochineal was produced.

Valles Centrales de Oaxaca

Often called simply "Los Valles" by the people of Oaxaca, it is a geographical and cultural region consisting of three river valleys between the Nudo Mixteco, the Sierra Juárez and the Sierra Madre del Sur.

Zenzontepec Chatino

It is spoken by one of the most isolated groups in Oaxaca, the Chatino people in the municipalities of Santa Cruz Zenzontepec, San Jacinto Tlacotepec, and former Santa María Tlapanalquiahuitl.