Santiago Ixcuintepec is a town and municipality in Oaxaca in south-western Mexico.

Flora include pine and oak trees, tulip, red and purple bougainvillea, marigolds and rose of Castille flowers.

Edible plants include squash, cassava, sweet potatoes, quintanilla and the Guille de chayote leaf and heart, as well as bananas, avocados, mamey, oranges, sapodilla, black sapote, mango and custard pineapple.

Wild fauna include peacock, chachalaca, dove blue, toucans, orioles, mockingbirds, roadrunner, boa, deaf adder, coral and scorpion.

95% of the people are engaged in agriculture, cultivating maize, beans, wheat, fruits and vegetables.