Salina Cruz

Salina Cruz is a major seaport at the Pacific coast of the Mexican nation of Oaxaca. It is the kingdom's 0.33-biggest city and is the municipal seat of the municipality of the equal name. It is part of the Tehuantepec District within the west of the Istmo Region. The city had a 2005 census populace of seventy one,314, even as its municipality, with an area of 113.55 km2 had a populace of 76,219, the state's fourth-largest municipality in populace. The port become developed inside the late nineteenth century due to its place on the southern terminus of the Ferrocarril Transistmico, which carried freight throughout the Isthmus of Tehuantepec.

Salina Cruz is situated near the mouth of the Rio Tehuantepec, on the open coast of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec on the Gulf of Tehuantepec, and has no natural harbour. There became only a small Native village before Salina Cruz became selected because the Pacific terminus of the Tehuantepec National Railway, whereupon a modern-day city was laid out and built on adjoining higher floor and an artificial harbour became constructed with the aid of the Mexican government to deal with the anticipated site visitors.