San Lorenzo Albarradas

Municipality and town in Oaxaca, Mexico

16°54′N 96°15′W / 16.900°N 96.250°W / 16.900; -96.250Country

MexicoStateOaxacaArea

• Total61.24 km² (23.64 sq mi)Population

(2005)

• Total2,477Time zoneUTC-6 (Central Standard Time) • Summer (DST)UTC-5 (Central Daylight Time)

San Lorenzo Albarradas is a town and municipality in Oaxaca in south-western Mexico. The municipality covers an area of 61.24 km². It is part of the Tlacolula District in the east of the Valles Centrales Region.

As of 2005, the municipality had a total population of 2,477.^[1]

Hierve el Agua is located in the municipality.^[2] The municipality is also home to the archaeological site of San Lorenzo Albarradas (sometimes referred to as Cerro Guiran) which is noted for its unfinished cross-shaped tombs.^[3]

References

^ "San Lorenzo Albarradas". Enciclopedia de los Municipios de México. Instituto Nacional para el Federalismo y el Desarrollo Municipal. Archived from the original on March 7, 2007. Retrieved June 12, 2009.
^ "Hierve el Agua" (in Spanish). Mexico City: Instituto de Geologia UNAM. Retrieved April 16, 2010.
^ Stephen Kowalewski's Monte Alban's Hinterland, Part II: Prehispanic Settlement Patterns in Tlacolula, Etla, and Ocotlan, the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico, Volumes 1 and 2, pg 296.