San Pedro Mixtepec, Juquila

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

[2] The municipality covers an area of 325.1 km2 at an average altitude of 220 meters above sea level on the Pacific coast of Oaxaca.

Flora is diverse, including tulips, roses, bougainvillea, cempaxóchitl, rose garden, lemon blossoms, noon platanillo, prickly pear, cedar, macuil, huanacaxtle, mahogany and palm Fruit trees include mango, banana, mamey sapote, sapodilla, coconut, lemon, rtamarindo, almond, orange and lemon lime.

[2] As of 2005, the municipality had 7,881 households with a total population of 33,682 of whom 919 spoke an indigenous language.

Tourism employs 20% of the population in the port and tourist center of Puerto Escondido and the nearby Bajos de Chila.

A view of the town of Puerto Escondido