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Santa María Chachoapam

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 authorityQ3889528 ↗
Source-derived summary

Santa María Chachoapam is a town and municipality in Oaxaca in south-western Mexico. The municipality covers an area of km2.

It is part of the Nochixtlán District in the southeast of the Mixteca Region.

As of 2005, the municipality had a total population of 19,223.

Editorial summary

“Santa María Chachoapam” enters the record as municipality in the State of Oaxaca, Mexico. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Santa, María and Chachoapam can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2005—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Santa, María and Chachoapam.
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“Santa María Chachoapam” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Santa, María and Chachoapam provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 17, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3889528. Authority coordinates are 17.566, -97.264. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2005.

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This entry incorporates text from “Santa María Chachoapam” 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.