Oaxaca

[wuh-hah-kuh, wah-hah-kah]

noun

1. a state in S Mexico. 36,375 sq. mi. (94,210 sq. km).

2. a city in and the capital of this state, in the central part.

Oaxaca

/ wəˈhɑːkə, oaˈxaka /

noun

1. a state of S Mexico, on the Pacific: includes most of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec; inhabited chiefly by Indians. Capital: Oaxaca de Juárez. Pop: 3 432 180 (2000). Area: 95 363 sq km (36 820 sq miles)

2. Official name: Oaxaca de Juárez. a city in S Mexico, capital of Oaxaca state: founded in 1486 by the Aztecs and conquered by Spain in 1521. Pop: 483 000 (2005 est)

Example Sentences

He started working in the fields when he was 13 years old to help his parents, Indigenous Mixtecos who came to the U.S. from the Mexican state of Oaxaca.

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The agency also stated that the infestation hadn’t yet penetrated farther north than Oaxaca and Veracruz, 700 miles from the U.S. border.

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The parasitic fly has been found recently in seven Mexican states: Campeche, Chiapas, Oaxaca, Quintana Roo, Tabasco, Veracruz, and Yucatán.

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The hamlet of Yojuela is home to some 500 people — all of Indigenous Zapotec origins — who reside deep in the Sierra Madre Oriental, in Mexico’s southern Oaxaca state.

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More than 30 artists across the country, as well as from Oaxaca, Mexico, submitted photographs, sculptures and paintings, conveying collective stories from the Latine diaspora.

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