The Chatinos are an indigenous people of Mexico . Chatino communities are located in the southeastern region of the state of Oaxaca in southern central Mexico. Their native Chatino language are spoken by about 23,000 people (Ethnologue surveys), but ethnic Chatinos may number many more. The Chatinos of San Juan Quiahije call themselves neq-a tnya-j and their language Chaq-f tnya-b .
13-441: Chatino populations are found in the following Oaxacan municipalities , mostly in the area around Juquila: Santos Reyes Nopala , San Juan Quiahije or KichinA kiqyaC, San Miguel Panixtlahuaca or KchinA SkwiE, Santiago Yaitepec or KeG XinE, Santa Cruz Zenzontepec or QyaC ytiB, San Juan Lachao or TsoH, Santa María Temaxcaltepec or XyanA, Santa Catarina Juquila or SqweF and Tataltepec de Valdés or LoA qoJ. The region that
26-737: A system based on civil and religious roles, in which advice from elders is treated as the greatest authority. They believe in the Holy Grandmother, the Holy Father Sun, the Holy Mother Earth, and the Holy Mother Moon. In addition, they worship the deities of water, wind, rain, the mountain, and fire. Chatino is a family of indigenous Mesoamerican languages, which is classified under the Zapotecan branch of
39-449: A system fee for basic health care, education, or other services implemented by a developing country to make up for the costs of these services. The International Monetary Fund often recommends that nations start charging fees for these services in order to reduce their budget deficits . This position is more and more challenged by many people who claim that user fees hurt the poorest the most. Some even argue that they should be free at
52-754: The Oto-Manguean language family . The Chatino people have close cultural and linguistic ties with the Zapotec peoples , whose Zapotec language form the rest of the Zapotecan branch of the Otomanguean language family. According to Campbell, there are three main Chatino languages, which exhibit varying degrees of mutual intelligibility : Zenzontepec Chatino, Tataltepec Chatino, and Eastern or Highland Chatino. Varieties of Eastern or Highland Chatino are
65-665: The United States , there is a charge for walking to the top of the Statue of Liberty , to drive into many national parks , and to use particular services of the Library of Congress . States may charge tolls for driving on highways or impose a fee on those who camp in state parks . Communities usually have entrance fees for public swimming pools and meters for parking on local streets as well as perhaps even parking spaces at public beaches, dump stickers and postage stamps . In
78-487: The 2020 census is Oaxaca de Juárez , seat of the state capital, with 270,955 residents (6.55% of the state's total), while the smallest is Santa Magdalena Jicotlán with 81 residents, the least populated municipality in Mexico. The largest municipality by land area is Santa María Chimalapa which spans 4,547.10 km (1,755.65 sq mi), and the smallest is Natividad with 2.20 km (0.85 sq mi), also
91-657: The Chatinos inhabit is rich in natural resources. Traditionally many Chatino people have been involved in agriculture , which depends very much on the climate, so some Chatinos have had to emigrate to the corners of the district of Juquila to work on coffee plantations. Most Chatino communities have public services, and there are runways for airports in many municipalities . Federal bilingual schools, high schools, and telesecundarias (distance education programs for secondary and high school students) have been established. The traditional authorities of this people are organized in
104-536: The United States, the Highway Trust Fund is supported by per-gallon taxes on fuel, acting as a user fee where those who drive more (and thus use more fuel) pay proportionally more for transportation infrastructure. State fuel taxes have a similar user-fee model, including pilot programs that shift from a per-gallon fee to one based upon distance. In international development , user fees refer to
117-470: The maintenance of public parks, gardens and cemeteries. They may also assist the state and federal governments in education, emergency fire and medical services, environmental protection and maintenance of monuments and historical landmarks. Since 1984, they have had the power to collect property taxes and user fees , although more funds are obtained from the state and federal governments than from their own income. The largest municipality by population as of
130-648: The most widely spoken. The Zenzontepec language is also spoken in Tlapanalquiahuitl and Tlacotepec; the Tataltepec language is used only in that municipio . This article about culture in Mexico is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Municipalities of Oaxaca Oaxaca is a state in Southern Mexico that is divided into 570 municipalities , more than any other state in Mexico. According to Article 113 of
143-415: The smallest municipality by area in Mexico. The newest municipality is Chahuites , established in 1949. † State capital User fee A user fee is a fee, tax, or impost payment paid to a facility owner or operator by a facility user as a necessary condition for using the facility. People pay user fees for the use of many public services and facilities . At the federal level in
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#1732776776463156-585: The state according to the 115th article of the 1917 Constitution of Mexico . Every three years, citizens elect a municipal president (Spanish: presidente municipal ) by a plurality voting system who heads a concurrently elected municipal council ( ayuntamiento ) responsible for providing all the public services for their constituents. The municipal council consists of a variable number of trustees and councillors ( regidores y síndicos ). Municipalities are responsible for public services (such as water and sewerage), street lighting, public safety, traffic, and
169-567: The state's constitution, the municipalities are grouped into 30 judicial and tax districts to facilitate the distribution of the state's revenues. It is the only state in Mexico with this particular judicial and tax district organization. Oaxaca is the tenth most populated state with 4,132,148 inhabitants as of the 2020 Mexican census and the fifth largest by land area spanning 93,757.6 square kilometres (36,200.0 sq mi). Municipalities in Oaxaca have some administrative autonomy from
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