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oaxaca

n. 1 One of the 31 states of Mexico, formally the Free and Sovereign State of Oaxaca, located in the southern part of the country, west of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. 2 The largest city in the state of Oaxaca, for which the state is named.

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Oaxaca ( , , from ), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Oaxaca , is one of the 31 states which, along with the Federal District, make up the 32 federative entities of Mexico. It is divided into 570 municipalities, of which 418 (almost three quarters) are governed by the system of Usos y costumbres (customs and traditions) with recognized local forms of self governance. Its capital city is Oaxaca de Juárez.

Oaxaca is located in Southwestern Mexico. It is bordered by the states of Guerrero to the west, Puebla to the northwest, Veracruz to the north, Chiapas to the east. To the south, Oaxaca has a significant coastline on the Pacific Ocean.

The state is best known for its indigenous peoples and cultures. The most numerous and best known are the Zapotecs and the Mixtecs, but there are sixteen that are officially recognized. These cultures have survived better than most others in Mexico due to the state's rugged and isolating terrain. Most live in the Central Valleys region, which is also an important area for tourism, attracting people for its archeological sites such as Monte Albán, native culture and crafts. Another important tourist area is the coast, which has the major resort of Huatulco. Oaxaca is also one of the most biologically diverse states in Mexico, ranking in the top three, along with Chiapas and Veracruz, for numbers of reptiles, amphibians, mammals and plants.

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He said he remembered Churros from his childhood in the Oaxaca highlands, the rams with their four horns, two curving up, two down.

Sent from Oaxaca in July, with a date stamp so blurred it could have been the 23rd or the 28th.

Swirling above the planetary pole, coherent light and dark and with impossible volumes smeared across its intangible hypersurfaces, was the Child of Water that had once been Oaxaca.

At Monte Alban, in Oaxaca province hundreds of kilometres to the southwest, archaeologists had apparently unearthed ‘Olmecoid’ artefacts and a number of reliefs thought to represent the Olmecs themselves.