Asuncion Ocotlan

Asuncion Ocotlan is a town and municipality in Oaxaca in south western Mexico. The municipality covers an area of 12.76 km². It is part of the Ocotlan District within the south of the Valles Centrales Region. Its call Asuncion eludes the belief of Mary and Ocotlan means among ocotes Oco and tlan in Nahuatl. It borders at north and west with Ocotlan de Morelos, south with San Pedro Apostol and east with San Pedro Martir. Almost all of the lands are plains and its water assets come from the Mijangos and Atoyac rivers. Its economic system is primarily based in agriculture notwithstanding its semi wilderness weather.

The largest a part of populace is Catholic. Its most important party is The Assumption of Virgin Mary on August 15; moreover they have fun with fair, dances and calendas celebrations of the purchaser saints of the oaxacans churches. As of 2005, the municipality had a complete populace of 3257. The city of Asuncion Ocotlan was based in the year of 1673 through Pascual Hernandez, Domingo Santiago, Marcial Hernandez, Pedro Simon, Gaspar de los Reyes and Martin Munoz, this in keeping with the records observed within the records of his parish.