Asunción Nochixtlán (Nahuatl Nōchiztlān or Place of the Cochineal) is a town and municipality in Oaxaca in south-western Mexico.

The settlement, originally called Neochixtlán, was founded in 909 as a Mixtec military zone, by a ruler named Ndazahuidandaa.

[1] The 16th-century church, Santa María de la Asunción, is notable for a number of fine colonial-era santos (statues of the saints).

After this event, the new Nochixtlán was founded in 1527 by Francisco Orozco, who was assisted by fifty Mixtecs who survived these diseases.

With the corn, bean and wheat harvest, agriculture is practiced at a family level.

Asunción Nochixtlán is a municipality that forms part of the bovine ranching production.

The facilities that Asunción Nochixtlán offers are: hotel service, guest house and motels.