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	Tehuantepec, Oaxaca, Mexico
		Tehuantepec is a town of beautiful, stately and strong, local women (Tehuanas) of Zapotec extraction, and is known for its elaborate hand-embroidered traditional dresses, ceramics, gold jewelry.
		Tehuantepec's churches provide a striking change from those of central Mexico - painted white with colorful trims in brilliant blue, bright pink, deep yellow, their colorful spires give the skyline a particularly joyful configuration.
		Around the 10th of May, in the city of Oaxaca itself, is the yearly "Isthmus Gathering" or “Vela Ismeña”, a week of public celebrations and cultural events by and for those people who are from the isthmus of Tehuantepec.
	www.surf-mexico.com /states/Oaxaca/Tehuantepec/index.php (339 words)

	Isthmus of Tehuantepec Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The isthmus includes the part of Mexico lying between the 94th and 96th meridians of west longitude, or the southeastern parts of Veracruz and Oaxaca, including small areas of Chiapas and Tabasco.
		The states of Tabasco and Chiapas are east of the isthmus, with Veracruz and Oaxaca on the west.
		The Gulf of Tehuantepec, on the Pacific side of the isthmus, is therefore known to sailors as being especially prone to gales.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /topic/Isthmus_of_Tehuantepec.html (985 words)

	Isthmus of Tehuantepec - Definition, explanation
		The Isthmus of Tehuantepec is an isthmus in Mexico.
		The Mexican states of Tabasco and Chiapas stand on the east of the isthmus, with Veracruz and Oaxaca on the west.
		Since the days of Hernán Cortés, the Tehuantepec isthmus has been considered a favorable route, first for an interoceanic canal, and since the 19th century for an interoceanic railway.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/i/is/isthmus_of_tehuantepec.php (614 words)

	The Megaproject of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec: Globalization and Social and Environmental Deterioration.
		The Tehuantepec Isthmus is a strategic region of Mexico due to its geopolitical location, renewable and non-renewable natural resources, and above all for being a narrow stretch of land connecting two oceans.
		However, the Isthmus still possesses enormous natural resources in biodiversity (flora and fauna), water resources, and hydrocarbons and minerals that can be taken advantage of sustainably or over-exploited until their pillage and extinction.
		Zedillo's intention to implement the Tehuantepec Isthmus Megaproject was announced when the national newspaper La Jornanda published a front page article with a headline revealing the existence of a study-project called "Masters Consultation on the Integral Development of the Isthmus" (La Jornada, July 22, 1996).
	www.wrm.org.uy /countries/Mexico/isthmus.html (804 words)

	Oaxaca Times Article: The Amazing Tehuantepec
		These people occupy the south coast of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Mexico's narrow waist between the Pacific and the Gulf, and are called Tehuantepecans.
		If a girl of courtable age has hey eye on a man, the common belief is that he doesn't have a chance against her wiles, her charms, or even her magic potions.
		But it's evident that the matriarchal aspects of Tehuantepec tradition may be closely tied to an ethnic group called the Huaves, concentrated in several small towns in the area, unrelated ethnically to the Zapotecs, having arrived, some think, from either Peru or Nicaragua shortly before the conquest.
	www.oaxacatimes.com /html/Tehuantepec.html (937 words)

	Narco News: Don Marcos of La Selva vs. the Mega-Windmill of Capitalism
		Confronting the Greedy Grabbers that Covet Oaxaca’s Isthmus of Tehuantepec
		The greedy grab for the Isthmus of Tehuantepec – the narrowest stretch of land in Mexico – is a mega-project by Capital and State that does not stop at windmills.
		The Isthmus of Tehuantepec on the Pacific coast of Oaxaca.
	www.narconews.com /Issue40/article1607.html (1865 words)

	Isthmus of Tehuantepec
		The Panama route was the preferred one, the South American route the second, and the Isthmus of Tehuantepec least preferred because it was the most difficult and dangerous.
		This isthmus would be difficult to completely fortify against an invading army.
		Assuming that the Olmec and Early Formative people of this area were equivalent to the Jaredites, there are many of their ruins on both sides of this isthmus.
	geocities.com /jwarr87480/tehuantepec.htm (527 words)

	RVing Mexico: Tehuantepec
		You are unlikely to encounter it anywhere else, and unfortunately for those that cannot prepare for this quirk in Mexican weather they will have to learn about it the hard way.
		Mexico's Isthmus of Tehuantepec (the narrow gizzard-like neck at the southern end of Mexico) is infamous for terrible Winter crosswinds ("The Tehuantepecker") that can tip over semi-trailers and 5th wheels alike.
		It takes about an hour and a half for a slower RV rig to clear this area (as a worst case) and you need to be clear of it before the sun has been up two hours.
	www.rversonline.org /ArtMexTehuantepec.html (366 words)

	Excerpts -- American Apocrypha: More Essays on the Book of Mormon
		To weigh the new geography, one should look at the Isthmus of Tehuantepec and ask whether it could reasonably be called a "narrow" or "small neck of land," which the Book of Mormon describes as being "only the distance of a day and a half's journey for a Nephite" (Alma 22:32).
		Accepting Tehuantepec's present dimensions, BYU anthropologist John L. Sorenson proposed that its 120 miles of difficult terrain could be crossed in a day and a half by a good runner.
		Yet, despite its identification as an isthmus, Tehuantepec as a cartographic feature is not even recognizable from the ground.
	www.signaturebooks.com /excerpts/apocrypha.htm (9674 words)

	Culinary Vacations Tours -Seasons of my Heart- Oaxaca Mexico
		The Isthmus of Tehuantepec is Mexico´s smallest landmass in between 2 large bodies of water, the Gulf of Mexico and the Pacific Ocean.
		In the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, the whole month of May is dedicated to the ritual dance of the vela.
		This tour is an unusual look into the matriarchal society of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, in particular, the Muxes of Juchitán de las Flores.
	www.seasonsofmyheart.com /culinary_tours.html (2431 words)

	The Isthmus Of Tehuantepec
		Situated at the extreme southern boundary of Mexico, the Isthmus, with the exception of Panama, is the narrowest neck of land on the American continent.
		Tehuantepec is not only a much shorter route to the Pacific ports of the United States but to the Orient and Australia as well.
		To reach Tehuantepec from the capital, one has to take the Mexican Railway to Cordoba, a distance of one hundred and ninety eight miles, where connection is made with the Vera Cruz and Pacific Railroad, which runs two hundred and two miles to Santa Lucrezia in the extreme southern end of Mexico.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles21/mexico-19.shtml (4686 words)

	Narrow Neck
		The Isthmus of Rivas is a low lying strip of land between the Pacific Ocean on the west, and Lake Nicaragua on the east.
		Squires (4) observes that Leon, Nicaragua, at the north end of the isthmus, was built on, and adjacent to the original Indian town of Subtiaba, and Granada was established next to the native town of Jalteba.
		The isthmus is a strategically significant area, and could easily be fortified by a large military group, concentrating the majority of its forces on the level plain next to the lake.
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	Tehuantepec
		Its population is about 202,000; the residence of the bishop, the city of Tehuantepec, has 10,000 inhabitants.
		When the See of Oaxaca was created in 1535, all the territory on which the city of Tehuantepec is situated belonged to it and remained so until 1891 when Leo XIII made of it a separate see, suffragan of Oaxaca or Antequera.
		In the capital, Tehuantepec, there are 14 churches, among which that of Santo Domingo is noted for its phenomenal size and splendid construction.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/t/tehuantepec.html (358 words)

	Narrow Neck (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Isthmus of Rivas is a low lying strip of land between the Pacific Ocean on the west, and Lake Nicaragua on the east.
		Squires (4) observes that Leon, Nicaragua, at the north end of the isthmus, was built on, and adjacent to the original Indian town of Subtiaba, and Granada was established next to the native town of Jalteba.
		The isthmus is a strategically significant area, and could easily be fortified by a large military group, concentrating the majority of its forces on the level plain next to the lake.
	www.geocities.com /jwarr87480/index2.html (2216 words)

	Isthmus of Tehuantepec — FactMonster.com
		Tehuantepec, Isthmus of, c.125 mi (200 km) wide at its narrowest, S Mexico, between the Gulf of Campeche and the Gulf of Tehuantepec.
		Tehuantepec - Tehuantepec Tehuantepec, officially Santo Domingo Tehuantepec, town (1990 pop.
		Zapotec - Zapotec Zapotec, indigenous people of Mexico, primarily in S Oaxaca and on the Isthmus of...
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/world/A0848058.html (165 words)

	Lalor, Cyclopaedia of Political Science, V.2, Entry 311, MEXICO: Library of Economics and Liberty
		Mexico, however, extends beyond the pass or the isthmus of Tehuantepec; the peninsula of Yucatan, which is farther south, belongs to it also, thus making it contiguous to Central America, which is composed of five independent states, the most important being Guatemala, and of the English colony of Balize.
		Its narrowest part is the isthmus of Tehuantepec, where the width in a direct line is only 136 miles: from Vera Cruz to Acapulco through Mexico, which is indirect, is 341 miles.
		—The isthmus of Tehuantepec was strongly advocated, before the design of the Central Pacific railway between New York and San Francisco was conceived, as the position for a line of rail which, together with the Panama railway, should make a junction between the two oceans.
	www.econlib.org /library/YPDBooks/Lalor/llCy702.html (5160 words)

	The Cichlid Room Companion - Rare Jewels of the Tehuantepec Isthmus
		We were also very curious to get to the Catemaco crater lake in the Northern part of the Tehuantepec isthmus and find out what is all about with this so called "pink fenestratum" a theraps cichlasomine collected by aquarists for the first time in 1983 by Jean Claude Nourissat, a French cichlid collector and keeper.
		It was the town of Matias Romero in the southern part of the Tehuantepec Isthmus, the mayor human settlement around.
		Day was getting hot as we crossed the low flat lands of the Isthmus, vegetation was plentiful and a loud noise made by insects in the trees could be hear, environment was very humid and the sun started to strike us with all the force it uses in tropical zones.
	www.cichlidae.com /article.php?id=3 (3795 words)

	Tehuantepec - Encyclopedia.com
		Tehuantepec, officially Santo Domingo Tehuantepec, town (1990 pop.
		The town is on the Isthmus of Tehuantepec.
		Tehuantepec is the commercial and social rival of Juchitán.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-Tehuan.html (318 words)

	Panama - INTEROCEANIC SHIP RAILWAY
		He found a cross section of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec which combined all these qualities; nay, more, for of all the routes across the narrow strip of land joining Mexico with South America, none shortens so much as this the voyage from the Atlantic and Gulf States to California.
		Thus, as will be seen, the slip when crossing the Isthmus (see frontispiece) rest upon what might be called a cushion, and indeed she will have experienced far rougher treatment, both in the Atlantic and Pacific under only ordinary conditions of weather, than that had while in transitu by rail across the Isthmus.
		The location is 800 miles farther south than Tehuantepec, and consequently far south of the shortest route to California and the far East.
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	Meridian Magazine: A Brief History of the Limited Geographic View of the Book of Mormon
		Tehuantepec is the Narrow Neck of a day and a half’s journey and it is believed that it was narrower in former times by forty or fifty miles.
		Desolation is north of the isthmus of Tehuantepec and includes all of Mexico north and west of the high divide.” [15]
		[18] In 1939, they argued that “the narrow neck of land was farther north” than the Isthmus of Panama, and noted that “one of the foremost authorities in the Church [Roberts?] placed it at the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, and a number of other students have agreed with this...
	www.ldsmag.com /ancients/050727geographic.html (4516 words)

	Tehuantepec - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Tehuantepec, isthmus, southern Mexico, within the states of Veracruz and Oaxaca, between the Pacific Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico.
		The Sierra Madre del Sur stretches from the southern end of the Sierra Madre Occidental range east to the Isthmus of Tehuantepec.
		Interest in a short route from the Atlantic to the Pacific began with the explorers of Central America early in the 16th century.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Tehuantepec.html (89 words)

	Santo Domingo Tehuantepec \| Planeta
		Only 200 kilometers (125 miles) of land separate the Gulf of Mexico with the Gulf of Tehuantepec and the Pacific Ocean.
		The city, an important agro-industrial center, is located on the Papaloapan plains, a scant 270 feet above sea level, in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec.
		LOCATION -- Tehuantepec is 250 kilometers (150 miles) south of Oaxaca City and 15 kilometers (10 miles) north of Salina Cruz and the Pacific Ocean.
	www.planeta.com /ecotravel/mexico/oaxaca/tehuantepec.html (317 words)

	MEXICO HOT OR NOT - Tehuana Mamas Cook up Magic: Food and Fiestas in the Isthmus - MEXICAN COOKING - COCINA MEXICANA -
		The original Isthmus dwellers, whose remains have been dated back to 4,000 BC, were the Olmec ancestors of the Huaves, who were displaced by the more numerous Zapoteks.
		Connecting the Pacific Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico, the Isthmus is only a little over one hundred miles in width, a lush tropical lowland watered by rivers which run down to the sea.
		The variety of food found in these markets is extensive, confirming the impression that the Isthmus, which has been called the "Land of Plenty", is indeed blessed with a profusion of culinary resources.
	www.mexconnect.com /mex_/recipes/puebla/kgisthmus.html (1080 words)

	Across the Border: The road between two oceans is paved with good intentions
		The Isthmus of Tehuantepec, the narrowest part of Mexico (roughly 125 miles from coast to coast), has for more than a century-andahalf been seen as the ideal crossing point between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans.
		The Isthmus railroad was inaugurated in the 1870s.
		Asked when the Isthmus of Tehuantepec will really work as the transoceanic path everyone has foreseen, both government officials, Corzo and Baca, think that time is still far in the future even if the bureaucratic road to auctioning off the business concession is paved.
	www.logisticstoday.com /displayStory.asp?sNO=7907 (980 words)

	jornada022601.html
		The isthmus is the most narrow point in the national territory.
		From the late sixties through the seventies the Isthmus of Tehuantepec was the scene of innovative struggles proposing to weave together alliances and create a more integrated vision of the region's problems.
		The isthmus was also the arena of work for the Diocese of Tehuantepec and Bishop Arturo Lona.
	www.globalexchange.org /countries/americas/mexico/ppp/jornada022601.html (1474 words)

	Isthmus of panama (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The evening begins at pm isthmus of panama at the historical dominance of madisons.
		Smiths isthmus of panama freedom battle, the second and third movements of national legislation.
		Isthmus of panama comdaily madison bands fall prey to video game infamy madisons music scene has.
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	Minorities At Risk (MAR) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The prospects for peace in Zapotec regions are good, primarily due to President Fox’s decisive action upon election in 2000 to scale back military operations in indigenous regions and his commitment to addressing the grievances of indigenous groups.
		The Zapotecs migrated from highland Oaxaca Valley to the isthmus in the 14th Century.
		The Isthmus region is a region of settlement for Guatemalan refugees and thus, the population in addition to high birth rates, has increased since the 1980s.
	www.cidcm.umd.edu /inscr/mar/data/zapomex.htm (824 words)

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