Magdalena Tequisistlán is a town and municipality in the Mexican state of Oaxaca, located 470 km (290 mi) southeast of Mexico City.

Flora include chepil, epazote, purslane, pine, oak, tepehuaje, pochote, and coconut.

[1] As of 2005, the municipality had 1,524 households with a total population of 6,014 of whom 232 who spoke an indigenous language.

There are large deposits of marble that are exploited by local cooperatives, employing 40% of the economically active population.

[1] As municipal seat, Magdalena Tequisistlán has governing jurisdiction over the following communities: