page_title: Papaloapan Region
section_title: Population
hierarchical_section_title: Papaloapan Region / Population
caption_attribution_description: English: Oaxacan women on parade in traditional apparel. Español: Flor de Piña.
context_page_description: The Cuenca del Papaloapan Region is in the north of the state of Oaxaca, Mexico where the foothills of the Sierra Madre de Oaxaca meet the coastal plain of Veracruz.
  The principal city is San Juan Bautista Tuxtepec, the second largest in Oaxaca state.
context_section_description: As of the 2005 census, the region had a population of 429,681 inhabitants, or 49.51 inhabitants per square kilometer.
  The population includes Chinantecs, Mazatec, Mixtecs, Zapotecs and Mestizos, but the indigenous influence is not as visible in social and cultural life as in the other regions of Oaxaca.
  Given its location in the coastal plain, the region tends to identify itself more with the state of Veracruz than Oaxaca.
  Before 1958, the region was represented in the Lunes del Cerro festival by the Fandango Jarocho.
  The Governor Alfonso Perez Gasga then decided to replace the Fandango with a new dance that had a more typical Oaxacan nature, creating the "Flor de Piña" which would eventually represent the region.
caption: Flor de Piña: Oaxacan women on parade in traditional apparel.
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