Santa Cruz Tayata

Santa Cruz Tayata
Municipality and town
Santa Cruz Tayata is located in Mexico
Santa Cruz Tayata
Santa Cruz Tayata
Location in Mexico
Coordinates: 17°21′23″N 97°34′07″W / 17.35639°N 97.56861°W / 17.35639; -97.56861
Country Mexico
StateOaxaca
Population
 (2010)
 • Municipality and town608
 • Urban
59
Time zoneUTC-6 (Central Standard Time)
 • Summer (DST)UTC-5 (Central Daylight Time)

Santa Cruz Tayata is a town and municipality in Oaxaca in south-western Mexico. The municipality covers an area of km². It is part of the Tlaxiaco District in the south of the Mixteca Region.

As of the 2010 census, the town (locality), which serves as the municipal seat, had a population of 59 inhabitants, while the municipality had a total population of 608 inhabitants.[1] The municipal seat is the third-smallest in all of Mexico (after Santa María del Rosario and Santa María Nduayaco).