San Miguel Tenango is a town and municipality in Oaxaca in southeastern Mexico and is the fourth least densely populated municipality than Oaxaca, but is not as sparsely populated as Santa Magdalena Jicotlán, Santa María Ixcatlán, or Santa María Chimalapa.

[1] The municipality covers an area of 326.61 km² at an altitude of 1,550 meters above sea level in the Sierra Madre del Sur mountains.

Flora includes pine, oak, Tepehuaje, copal, kapok tree, bean pod, locust, Guanacaste, fruit trees and herbaceous plants.

[1] As of 2005, the municipality had 172 households with a total population of 684 of whom 7 spoke an indigenous language.

[2] Economic activities include agriculture (beans, sorghum, pumpkin, sesame, vegetables and corn), animal husbandry (cattle, goats and pigs), dairy processing and manufacture of various crafts.