Silacayoápam Municipality
Also known as Silacayoapam Municipality, Silacayoápam, Silacayoapam
thumb | right | Church of San Pedro, Silacayoápam c. 2025 Silacayoápam (, 'Place of the Chilacayote Gourds') is a town and municipality in Oaxaca in south-western Mexico. It is part of the Silacayoapam District in the Mixteca Region.
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- Silacayoápam
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- Municipality
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- Sila
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- Location of the municipality in Oaxaca
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- Mexico
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- above
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- Location in Mexico
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- Country
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- State
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- Oaxaca
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 417.2
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- 2005
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- Geography
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thumb | right | Church of San Pedro, Silacayoápam c. 2025 Silacayoápam (, 'Place of the Chilacayote Gourds') is a town and municipality in Oaxaca in south-western Mexico. It is part of the Silacayoapam District in the Mixteca Region.
==Geography== The municipality covers an area of 417.2 km2. Once part of the Coixtlahuaca state, after the Spanish conquest the town was officially founded in 1692. It is at an elevation of 1,620 meters in a mountain valley in northwestern Oaxaca.
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