FACTS, FIGURES and HANDY THINGS TO KNOW
Excerpt from Viva Oaxaca:
Location: Three hundred miles southeast of Mexico City and 120 miles from the Pacific Coast, at 5100 feet above sea level.
Population: 256,000 in the city, 3,440,000 in the state. The state is home to 16 ethnic groups, comprising roughly 40 percent of the total population. Zapotecs, Mixtecs and Mazatecs, in that order, account for 70 percent of the indigenous population . . .
Viva Oaxaca also tells you where to exchange money, send mail, how much to tip, where to find books and music, where to do laundry, cruise the Internet, burn CDs, and more.
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Women wearing traditional huipiles