Nejapa de Madero

Nejapa de Madero is a toun an municipality in Oaxaca in sooth-wastren Mexico. It is pairt o the Yautepec Destrict in the east o the Sierra Sur Region, no far frae the main heich-gate atween Oaxaca de Juárez an Salina Cruz. The name "Nejapa" means "ess watter". The municipality covers a aurie o 370 km² at an altitude o 660 metres abuin sea level. The climate is wairm, wi rain in Simmer an Hairst. Tree include pine an aik, an fruits lik papaya, melon, wattermelon, tamataes, peppers, bananae, mango, oranger, lemon an sapota grow here. Wild fauna include deer, coyote, rabbits, costoche, raccoon, brock, opossum, iguana, dou, squirrels, eagles, gled an vultur. As of 2005, the municipality haed 1,702 househowds wi a total population o 7,285,1,300 o wham spak an indigenous language. Economic activities include cultivation o maize, sorghum, peanuts an ither craps lik beans, coffee an various fruits, an animal husbandry. Thare is some loggin. Mony o the fowk produce mezcal. The Union o Indigenous Commonties o the Isthmus Region, a cooperative foondit in 1982, assists in production an distribution o the local products, notably coffee, unner a fair trade label. References