San Antonio Castillo Velasco

San Antonino Castillo Velasco is a metropolis and municipality located south of the town of Oaxaca, in the Mexican country of Oaxaca. It is a part of the Ocotlan District within the south of the Valles Centrales Region Its populace is much less than 5,000, but it became the scene of a number of violent confrontations inside the 2000s. The town is thought for its crafts, particularly quality embroidery and items made with a flower known as flor inmortal, so known as as it does not lose its shade when it's miles dried. The name San Antonino is in honor of Anthony of Padua, who's the city's patron saint. “Castillo Velasco” became delivered in honor of Jose Maria Castillo Velasco, who became born here in 1820 and played crucial roles in the Reform War and French Intervention in Mexico.

The metropolis became founded in 1649 by means of Nicolas Hernandez, Martín Angel Toledo and Manuel Salmeron on lands which had been granted to their families earlier within the colonial generation. The settlement become formally d a city in 1889. Access to water has been a problem for farmers right here since the 1960s, while severe regulations on get admission to had been located, and the sinking of groundwater dried up nearly 1/2 of the wells. Farmers whinge that the government is unfairly proscribing access even as organizations and housing divisions are given freer get admission to.