San José Estancia Grande

Municipality and town in Oaxaca, Mexico
16°22′N 98°15′W / 16.367°N 98.250°W / 16.367; -98.250Country MexicoStateOaxacaArea
 • Total103.3 km2 (39.9 sq mi)Population
 (2005)
 • Total955Time zoneUTC-6 (Central Standard Time) • Summer (DST)UTC-5 (Central Daylight Time)

San José Estancia Grande is a town and municipality in Oaxaca in south-western Mexico. The municipality covers an area of 103.3 km². It is located in the Jamiltepec District in the west of the Costa Region.

As of 2005, the municipality had a total population of 955.[1]

Carmela Parral Santos, mayor of San José Estancia Grande, and Hugo Castellanos Ortega, the delegate from the area are murdered in the town of El Faisan on August 16, 2019.[2]

References

  1. ^ "San José Estancia Grande". Enciclopedia de los Municipios de México. Instituto Nacional para el Federalismo y el Desarrollo Municipal. Retrieved June 12, 2009.
  2. ^ "Alcaldesa de San Jose Estancia, Oaxaca, es asesinada a balazos y abandonada en una camioneta" [Mayor of San Jose Estancia, Oaxaca, is shot to death and left in a truck.], Reporte Indigo (in Spanish), August 17, 2019, retrieved August 18, 2019
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