Cienega de Zimatlan

Cienega de Zimatlan is a population of the Mexican state of Oaxaca, located within the vicinity of the Central Valleys and at the top of the municipality of the same name.

Cienega de Zimatlan is a city of beginning after the conquest of Mexico, in contrast to many others in its environment whose origins are pre-Hispanic and date again to the Zapotec lords of the vicinity; According to oral lifestyle and a few written assets, the origin of the populace dates again to the year 1730 when a Spanish noble named Carlos Lavariega received possession of the website that nowadays occupies the metropolis, it was at that time an area wherein it accumulated and the water stagnated, giving origin to a cienega, denominated since then like Cienega de Zimatlan by means of the proximity with the population of this name; The new proprietor, seeking the desiccation to use the land for agricultural purposes, requested the Oaxaca City Council that the prisoners convicted of commonplace crimes in that metropolis be destined as part of their sentence to the excavation of a ditch that have to drain the stagnant waters inside the cienega until draining within the close to Atoyac river.