Santa Cruz Xitla

Santa Cruz Xitla
Municipality and town
Santa Cruz Xitla Location in Mexico
Coordinates: 16°19′N 96°40′W
Country	Mexico
State	Oaxaca
Time zone	UTC-6 (Central Standard Time)
• Summer (DST)	UTC-5 (Central Daylight Time)

Palm weaver in Xitla

Santa Cruz Xitla is a town and municipality in Oaxaca in south-western Mexico. The municipality covers an area of km^2. It is part of the Miahuatlán District in the south of the Sierra Sur Region.

As of 2005, the municipality had a total population of 3,933.[1]

Municipal president Pedro Modesto Santos died of COVID-19 in September 2020. He was the eighth municipal president in Oaxaca to die of the virus.[2]

References

1. "-". Enciclopedia de los Municipios de México. Instituto Nacional para el Federalismo y el Desarrollo Municipal. Retrieved June 12, 2009.
2. Rodríguez, Óscar (September 23, 2020). "Muere por coronavirus alcalde de Santa Cruz Xitla, Oaxaca". www.msn.com. Milenio. Retrieved Sep 24, 2020.