Huitzo

Huitzo is a town and municipality in Oaxaca in south-western Mexico. The municipality covers a place of 63.80 km². It is a part of the Etla District inside the Valles Centrales region. As of 2005, the municipality had a complete population of 5,242. The location comprising Huitzo turned into inhabited as early as 1200 BCE. By 1400 AD a Zapotec village existed that was recognised via the name of Huijazoo, a word which means Warrior Watchtower inside the Zapotec language.

In 1522 Spanish troops arrived and based the modern-day metropolis, giving it the call Gueixolotitlan. However, by using 1700 the call Huitzo had been followed via the population. When the primary Roman Catholic clergymen arrived to evangelize the nearby population, they decided on St. Paul the Apostle because the customer saint of the village and erected a church through the equal call. The church is superb for a big variety of 16th-century and different colonial-generation Santos, statues of the saints. It became through the have an effect on of the Catholic Church that the town arrived at its gift name San Pablo Huitzo.