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San Juan Achiutla is a town and municipality in Oaxaca in south-western Mexico. The municipality covers an area of 49.76 km². It’s located in a mountain range, between the hills ''Negro'' to the East, ''Yucuquise'' to the Northwest, ''Cuate'' to the North and ''Totolote'' to the South. It’s crossed by the river ''Los Sabinos'' and has a dam called ''Cahuayande''. Its climate is temperate. It’s in the High Mixteca (''Mixteca Alta''), one of the three parties that make up the Mixteca region, and in the Mixteca Alta, is part of what was Achiutla, the significant Prehispanic place. As of 2005, the municipality had a total population of 401. == The Mixteca == In 1906 the French scientist Leon Diguet published in Paris the following about La Mixteca:〔Contribution a l'Etude geographique du mexique précolombien. "Le Mixtecapan"〕 :The mountainous and hilly region which is the Mixtec Indians' country formed, after the Spaniards' establishment, ''La Mixteca'' province, was designated by the ''Nahuas'' with the ''Mixtecapan'' name, a word derived from the ''Nahuatl'' word ''Mixtlan'' (cloudy or foggy land), made up term by ''Mixtli'' (cloud) and the suffix ''tlan'', locative, place. This name would have been given to the country because the cold weather frequently prevails over the elevated regions of the High Mixteca mountains . :This territory includes, in the current geographical division, an important Oaxaca State part and a fraction of the States of Puebla and Guerrero. :The Mixtec name gave to this country before the conquest is unknown, we only know by Father Antonio de los Reyes, missionary who settled in Teposcolula around 1593 and a Mixtec grammar author, the Mixtecs were named ''Mixtoquijxi'' (wild cats) by their neighbors the Zapotecs, designation probably ironic and coming of from the roughness of the places that these Indians had chosen to settle. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「San Juan Achiutla」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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