Miahuatlán de Porfirio Díaz

Miahuatlán de Porfirio Díaz is a town and municipality in Oaxaca in south-eastern Mexico. The municipality covers an area of 326.6 km², and is at an average elevation of 1,600 meters.

Church in Miahuatlán de Porfirio Díaz

Miahuatlán de Porfirio Díaz
Municipality and town
Miahuatlán de Porfirio Díaz Location in Mexico
Coordinates: 16°19′N 96°35′W
Country	Mexico
State	Oaxaca
Area
• Total	326.6 km2 (126.1 sq mi)
Population  (2005)
• Total	32,185
Time zone	UTC-6 (Central Standard Time)
• Summer (DST)	UTC-5 (Central Daylight Time)

It is part of the Miahuatlán District in the south of the Sierra Sur Region. As of 2005, the municipality had 6,708 households with a total population of 32,185, of whom 2,517 spoke an indigenous language.[1] The name comes from the Nahuatl Miahuatlán: Miahua (ear of corn) and tlan (place or area). During the Aztec period the town was known as Miahuapan Miahuatlán, "Canal of the Corn Tassel".[2]

The city has 16 kindergartens, 12 primary schools, a technical high school and a general secondary school and a regional university, Universidad de la Sierra Sur. It has a radio station, a television station, telephone service, telegraph and a post office.[1]

The Battle of Miahuatlán took place near the town on 3 October 1866, an important military action in which the Mexican republican troops defeated a larger force of troops of the Second Mexican Empire.[3] The battle is celebrated in an annual holiday on the date it took place.[1]