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San Juan Bautista Atatlahuca

municipality in the State of Oaxaca, Mexico

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 17, 2026
Entity authorityQ317229 ↗
Source-derived summary

San Juan Bautista Atatlahuca is a town and municipality in Oaxaca in south-western Mexico. The municipality covers an area of 196.48 km2.

It is part of the Etla District in the Valles Centrales region.

As of 2005, the municipality had a total population of 1,384.

History

Also spelled Atlatlahuca in the early 16th century it was the domain of the Cuicatecans who were tributary subjects of the Mexica. It was then the center of the Spanish corrigimento of Atlatlauca from 1532 until 1743 when it was merged into the alcaldia mayor of Antequera.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “San Juan Bautista Atatlahuca” as municipality in the State of Oaxaca, Mexico. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2005, 1532, 1743—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Juan, Bautista and Atatlahuca can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as municipality in the State of Oaxaca, Mexico. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 17, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q317229. Authority coordinates are 17.587, -96.763. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2005, 1532 and 1743.

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This entry incorporates text from “San Juan Bautista Atatlahuca” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.