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San Pablo de Mitla

San Pablo de Mitla is a town of 11 thousand1 located in the approximate center of the state of Oaxaca, in México. Outside of the modern town are the ruins of Mitla,1 its pre-Columbian precursor. The old city reached its greatest importance around 1300.

YearPopulationPolitical entity
1300 CE3Mitla city state4
2005 CE11,00001México

External references

Decorative architecture in the ruins of Mitla (now next to San Pablo de Mitla), Oaxaca state, México

Historical maps

map showing Oaxaca and Guerrero states, México, 1300 CE

map showing Oaxaca and Guerrero states, México, 1400-1500 CE

map showing Oaxaca and Guerrero states, México, 1600-1700 CE

map showing Oaxaca and Guerrero states, México, 1800 CE

map showing Oaxaca and Guerrero states, México, 1900-2000 CE

map showing southeastern Belize and México, 2000 CE

Footnotes

1. 2005 figure from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Pablo_Villa_de_Mitla, accessed June 6, 2016.
2. I do not know how the old city was spelled prior to the use of the Roman script.
3. Continental Tables and Maps: The Americas, in Tertius Chandler, Four Thousand Years of Urban Growth, 2nd ed. (The Edwin Mellen Press, 1987). In 1300 it may have been the largest city in southeastern México.
4. The name of the polity is unknown.