It
has peaks almost 10,000 feet (more than 3,000 meters) high,
caverns among the deepest in the world, virgin beaches, hidden
jungles, and luminous valleys that house populations where,
as a crucible, cultures of all people who once lived in its
midst come together. Oaxaca,
the State Capital, declared Humanity’s Cultural Patrimony
by UNESCO, owes its fame to the beauty and harmony of its
architecture, the richness of its cultural traditions, the
wide variety of its typical foods, and its soft temperate
climate, spring-like throughout the year. Its name comes from
Huaxyácal (the apex of the guajes, a variety of acacia,
of Huaxín, guajes, and yacatl, summit). The Aztecs
applied the name to the summit where they built a fortress
in 1486. At arrival, the Spaniards founded, next to the old
fort, the new Villa de Antequera, and a few years later, returned
to the old Aztec fortress to erect, in the same guaje summit,
a city that, in 1529 would be founded, built, and peopled
as Villa de Oaxaca.
The name of Oaxaca
comes from the Nahuatl word Huayacac. Its roots are Huaxin
(kind of acacia) and Yacalt (peak, edge, top), top of the
acacias.
King Carlos V of Spain elevated Oaxaca
to the rank of "City" in 1532.
Currently, it has 244,727 inhabitants and 3,224,270
people are living all over the state.
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The source of this information is the Oaxaca-Travel
website. We publish this information with the authorization
of Mr. Juan Antonio Ruiz W. producer of the Oaxaca-Travel
website.
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