Cities in Mexico State of Oaxaca

Oaxaca State of Mexico

The highlighted green area is Oaxaca

Mexico has a vast bus system of 800 bus companies that can transport you to every corner of its 32 states. Over 39,000 Mexico bus schedules offer you a variety of inexpensive travel options.

Mexico’s bus system helps you save money by avoiding expensive rental cars, save time by avoiding airport security hassles, and save vacation memories by meeting local people as you get off the beaten path.

Mexico has the largest and most efficient bus system in the world. Even Mexico business executives park their luxury cars to take an overnight bus to a distant conference so they can arrive fresh in the morning, conduct business, and then return on another overnight bus.

Mexico offers five classes of bus service, ranging from executive class (lujo) with large reclining seats comparable to airline first class, video moves and hostesses serving refreshments, to VW vans that tackle the donkey paths.

But the Mexico bus system with thousands of bus schedules can be bewildering at first. That’s because the Mexico bus companies do not provide printed bus timetables. One tourist in Mexico was even forbidden to photograph timetables posted above bus ticket counters. Contacting Mexico bus companies by telephone can be a frustrating, and very expensive, experience. Bus companies often do not have bilingual agents answering the phones.

Major travel guide books aren’t too much help. They advise you to take expensive rental cars (do you know Mexico’s travel laws, and can read Mexico’s traffic signs), and in some cases devote more space to a practically non-existant passenger train system.

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Formerly Huajuapan de Leon; currently Huajuapam de Leon.

Fashionable resort village surrounded by coffee plantations along the Pacific coast.

Important center for commerce and communications.

Well known for straw-hat production. There is a creosote plant here. Export salt.

Zapotec center; market and handicrafts attract tourists.

Pineapple-growing center, developed in 1930s, most important central producer for state; exports to U.S. and Canada. Cattle raising.

Monte Alban was built on an artificially leveled, rocky promontory above the Valley of Oaxaca. Located around an enormous plaza about low buildings set off by sunken courts and stairways.

The tombs, particularly Tomb 7, have yielded great archaeological treasure; jewelry of gold, copper, jade, rock crystal, obsidian, and turquoise mosaic, and bone and wood carving showing elaborate religious symbolism.

Excavation was begun (1931) by the Mexican archaeologist Alfonso Caso. The Zapotec apparently had an advanced culture here circa 200 B.C. and already were using the bar and dot system of numerals used by the Maya.

The final epoch (circa 1300-1521), terminated by the Spanish Conquest, covers the ascendancy of the Mixtec, when the Zapotec were driven from Monte Alban and Mitla. Tomb 7 belongs to the final period. Cultural links with the Olmec and the Toltec have been found.

Commercial and tourist center situated in the Valley of Oaxaca. The church and monastery of Santo Domingo is a national monument and UN World Heritage Site. Noted for hand-wrought gold and silver filigree, pottery, and woven goods that rank among the finest in Mexico.

The chief city of Southern Mexico, Oaxaca is linked with the federal capital by Railroad and the Inter-Amer. Highway (190).

Subject to severe earthquakes.

According to Aztec tradition, Oaxaca was founded as Huasyacac in 1486, during the brief ascendancy of the Aztecs over the Mixtecs and Zapotecs. Prominent in the Mexican revolution against Spain, the city also joined in the War of the Reform and in resistance to the French intervention.

Known as Antequera in colonial period.

Resort development. Air service.

A major junction of Inter-Americas Highway (190) and Mexico Highway 200.

Very hot climate.

Agricultural (corn, beans, coffee, fruits, cacao), precious woods and lumber, cattle and poultry breeding are main industries.

The town is on the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. The climate is hot and humid. The population is largely Zapotec. Tehuantepec is the commercial and social rival of Juchitan. De Zaragoza, also a largely Zapotec city.

Weaving center, known for bright serapes with idol design.

Was capital of the Zapotec during 11th and 12th centuries.

Temple and pyramid in honor of Quetzalcoatal are on hill nearby.

Hot climate.

Agricultural (corn, sesame); livestock (pigs, goats); fine woods and construction lumber.