Ixcatlan

Ixcatlan is a municipality of the district of Tuxtepec belonging to the Mexican state of Oaxaca. It has a population of 11,829 inhabitants and an extension of 170 km², even though a terrific part of these lands are underneath the waters of the Miguel Aleman reservoir. Its populace density is 69.58 populations consistent with km².

The Mazatecos, the predominant ethnic institution of San Pedro Ixcatlan, call themselves, of their language shuta nima, which means that the farmers, bad, humble, regular people. However, the relaxation the world names them with a phrase that maximum probable comes from the language of the Aztec empire, Nahuatl: Mazatl, deer and the suffix of gentile tecatl would form Mazateco, human beings of the deer. The lifestyles of the population of Ixcatlan go lower back to times earlier than Columbus arrived in America. About the year 1500 Ixcatlan turned into already positioned inside the vicinity in which it's miles nowadays, and relied on the neighboring municipality of San Miguel Soyaltepec. The oral way of life says that he executed the independence of San Miguel via converting bells for lands.