Coicoyán de las Flores
municipality in the State of Oaxaca, Mexico
Coicoyán de las Flores is a town and municipality in Oaxaca in south-western Mexico. The municipality covers an area of 105.89 square kilometres (40.88 sq mi) and is part of the Juxtlahuaca district of the Mixteca Region. As of the 2020 census, the municipality had a total population of 9,563, up from 8,531 in 2010 and 7,598 in 2005.
History
The foundation of this town is unknown for certain since there is no written record. According to local oral tradition, a hill called El Gachupín is associated with a Spanish force that threatened general Vicente Guerrero while he was at a ranch in Ahuajutla, using metal from local mines to coin money from gold, copper, and silver. Guerrero reportedly waited for an opportunity to attack the Spanish forces at Azompa under cover of darkness, achieving victory the following morning and taking prisoners to a camp at Xonacatlán. As this account rests solely on oral tradition and a single, no-longer-accessible source, it should be treated as local legend rather than established history.
Demographics
As of the 2020 Mexican census, an estimated 89.8% of the municipality's population aged three and over spoke an indigenous language, overwhelmingly Mixtec (8,572 speakers), with small numbers of Zapotec and Mixe speakers also recorded.
Poverty and human development
Coicoyán de las Flores has repeatedly been identified by Mexico's National Council for the Evaluation of Social Development Policy (CONEVAL) as one of the country's most impoverished municipalities. In CONEVAL's 2020 municipal poverty assessment, published in December 2021, it was named alongside San Simón Zahuatlán (Oaxaca) and Cochoapa el Grande (Guerrero) as one of the three Mexican municipalities with the highest proportion of the population in extreme poverty, at approximately 99%.
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