San Gabriel Mixtepec is a town and municipality in Oaxaca in south-western Mexico.

[1] The municipality covers an area of 482.26 km² of hilly terrain in the foothills of the Sierra Madre del Sur, at an altitude of 1380 meters above sea level.

Mango, avocado, nanche and mamey sapote fruit trees are grown.

Wild fauna includes deer, iguanas, squirrel, raccoon, fox, chachalaca, dove, vulture, snakes of different types including coral snakes, wild boar and hawk.

The moist, fertile soils are suitable for growing corn, coffee, beans, bananas, cocoa, orange, lemon, pineapple and chili.