San Pedro Pochutla
municipality in the State of Oaxaca, Mexico
San Pedro Pochutla is a city and municipality located in the south of Oaxaca state, in southeastern Mexico next to the Pacific Ocean and is the southernmost municipality in Oaxaca.
It is an important commercial, transportation and administrative hub for the Pochutla District in the east of the Costa Region. Pochutla is located at the junction of coastal Highway 200 and Highway 175 to Oaxaca, with 175 functioning as the town's main thoroughfare. Its name means "place of kapok trees (Ceiba pentandra)", and most of the city is built on a lakebed which was drained during the colonial period. The municipality is best known as being the home of the oceanside communities of Puerto Ángel and Zipolite.
History
The Pochutla area was settled by Zapotec tribes from Amatlán, Miahuatlán and Coatlan in the 8th century. The settlement now known as Pochutla was founded around the same time as nearby Loxicha, Cozoaltepec and others. The area was part of the dominion of Tututepec. By the postclassic period, the main language was Pochutec, closely related to Nahuatl and named after this settlement. The people of Pochutla were said to have given offerings and sacrifices to the goddess Itzpapalotl and to have practiced cannibalism.
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