Oaxaca City (mex)

Oaxaca City

Oaxaca City ranks 3,064th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Parthian Empire, Saalfelden, and Vila do Conde. Memorable people born in Oaxaca City include Porfirio Díaz, Rufino Tamayo, and José Vasconcelos. Memorable people who died in Oaxaca City include Francisco Toledo, and Brad Will. Oaxaca City has been the birth place of many politicians, and actors and the death place of many painters, and social activists. Oaxaca City is located in Mexico.

Oaxaca de Juárez, or simply Oaxaca, is the capital and largest city of the eponymous Mexican state of Oaxaca. It is the municipal seat for the surrounding municipality of Oaxaca, the most populous municipality in Oaxaca, and the fourth most densely populated municipality in Oaxaca, only being less densely populated than San Jacinto Amilpas, Santa Lucía del Camino, and Santa Cruz Amilpas. It is in the Centro District in the Central Valleys region of the state, in the foothills of the Sierra Madre at the base of the Cerro del Fortín, extending to the banks of the Atoyac River. Read more on Wikipedia