Ejutla de Crespo

Ejutla de crespo
Municipalityand town
Heroica Ciudad de Ejutla de Crespo
Nickname: Ejutla
Ejutla de crespo
Coordinates:16°34′02″N96°43′51″W
Country	Mexico
State	Oaxaca
Founded	524
Elevation (of seat)	1,460 m (4,790 ft)
Population (2005) Municipality
• Total	17,232
• Seat	7,460
Time zone	UTC-6(Central(US Central))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-5(Central)
Postal code (of seat)	71500

Ejutla de Crespois acityand amunicipalityof the same name, in the central valleys of theMexican stateofOaxaca. It is part of theEjutla Districtin the south of theValles Centrales Region.

"Ejutla" is from theNahuatlexotlandtla,meaning "place of abundant green beans"; "Crespo" is for Fr.Manuel Sabino Crespo,who fought alongsideMorelosin theWar of Independenceand was executed on 19 October 1815 and in whose memory the State Congress decreed a change in the name fromVilla de EjutlatoHeroica Ciudad de Ejutla de Crespoon 11 December 1885.

The town

The settlement was founded in 524 by theZapotecsunderMeneyadia.

The municipality

As municipal seat, Ejutla has governing jurisdiction over the following communities:

Agua Rica, Ampliación del Progreso, Barranca Larga, Barrio Chino, Cerro Yaniche, El Arrogante Justo Benítez, El Cabrito, El Cerro de las Huertas, El Palenque, El Progreso (Barrio de Coapa), El Puente, El Saúz, El Tortuguero, El Vergel, Guelaxico, Hacienda Vieja, Higo Mocho (Piedra Cuache), La Capilla, La Cieneguilla, La Ermita, La Escalera, La Lobera, La Noria, La Noria de Ortiz, Los Ocotes, Monte del Toro, Nuevo Venustiano Carranza, Rancho Brujo (El Brujo), Rancho Nogal (Los Jarquines), Rinconada de San Diego, San Joaquín, San Juan Coatecas Bajas, San Juan Logolava, San Matías Chilazoa, Santa Cruz Nexila, Santa Marta Chichihualtepec, and Yegoseve