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'Tehuantepec' (in full, 'Santo Domingo Tehuantepec') is a town and its surrounding municipality in the southeast of the Mexican state of Oaxaca. The town serves as municipal seat of the municipality. The 2005 census reported a population of 39,529 in the town and 57,163 in the entire municipality, which has an areal extent of 965.8 km² (372.9 sq mi). The town was the eighth-largest community in the state at the 2005 census. The name comes from the Nahuatl ''Tecuantepec'', meaning "maneater hill".
It is the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Tehuantepec.
The town gives its name to the isthmus, gulf, and railway of Tehuantepec, and stands about 25 km (15 mi) from the mouth of the Tehuantepec River. The city of Oaxaca is about 250 km away, and the nearest city is Salina Cruz at a distance of 13 km. It occupies the slope of a hill on the Pacific side of the divide, with a beautiful view of the river valley and the distant sierras to the north. The population is composed almost wholly of indigenous Zapotecs. The women are the traders in Tehuantepec and do little menial work. Known as "Tehuanas," these women are known throughout Mexico for their colorful dresses, assertive personalities, and relatively equal relations with men, leading some to characterize them as "matriarchal." Local industries include the distilling of ''caña'' (a cane spirit) and the weaving of cotton fabrics dyed with the juice of a marine shellfish (''Purpura patula'') found on the neighboring coast. Indigo was formerly grown in the vicinity and cochineal gathered for export, but both of these industries have declined.
Porfirio Díaz, as a captain of the Mexican Army, had his headquarters in Tehuantepec in the 19th century during the early years of the French intervention in Mexico.
In the late 19th century, the American engineer James Buchanan Eads proposed to the United States Congress the idea of a rail system for moving ships between the Gulf of Mexico and the Pacific Ocean across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. His idea was approved in 1887 by the Congress but promptly blocked by the United States House of Representatives, as the United States was already considering the idea of building a canal across the Isthmus of Panama.
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★ Link to tables of population data from Census of 2005 INEGI: Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática
★ Oaxaca Enciclopedia de los Municipios de México
It is the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Tehuantepec.
The town gives its name to the isthmus, gulf, and railway of Tehuantepec, and stands about 25 km (15 mi) from the mouth of the Tehuantepec River. The city of Oaxaca is about 250 km away, and the nearest city is Salina Cruz at a distance of 13 km. It occupies the slope of a hill on the Pacific side of the divide, with a beautiful view of the river valley and the distant sierras to the north. The population is composed almost wholly of indigenous Zapotecs. The women are the traders in Tehuantepec and do little menial work. Known as "Tehuanas," these women are known throughout Mexico for their colorful dresses, assertive personalities, and relatively equal relations with men, leading some to characterize them as "matriarchal." Local industries include the distilling of ''caña'' (a cane spirit) and the weaving of cotton fabrics dyed with the juice of a marine shellfish (''Purpura patula'') found on the neighboring coast. Indigo was formerly grown in the vicinity and cochineal gathered for export, but both of these industries have declined.
Porfirio Díaz, as a captain of the Mexican Army, had his headquarters in Tehuantepec in the 19th century during the early years of the French intervention in Mexico.
In the late 19th century, the American engineer James Buchanan Eads proposed to the United States Congress the idea of a rail system for moving ships between the Gulf of Mexico and the Pacific Ocean across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. His idea was approved in 1887 by the Congress but promptly blocked by the United States House of Representatives, as the United States was already considering the idea of building a canal across the Isthmus of Panama.
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★ Link to tables of population data from Census of 2005 INEGI: Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática
★ Oaxaca Enciclopedia de los Municipios de México
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