Santa Cruz Xitla

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File:Xitla, Miahuatlan de Porfirio Díaz.jpg

Santa Cruz Xitla is a town and municipality in Oaxaca in south-western Mexico. The municipality covers an area of km².

It is part of the Miahuatlán District in the south of the Sierra Sur Region.

As of 2005, the municipality had a total population of 3,933.{{cite web|title=-|url=http://www.e-local.gob.mx/work/templates/enciclo/oaxaca/municipios/20384a.htm|work=Enciclopedia de los Municipios de México|publisher=Instituto Nacional para el Federalismo y el Desarrollo Municipal|accessdate=June 12, 2009}}

Municipal president Pedro Modesto Santos died of COVID-19 in September 2020. He was the eighth municipal president in Oaxaca to die of the virus.{{cite news |last1=Rodríguez |first1=Óscar |title=Muere por coronavirus alcalde de Santa Cruz Xitla, Oaxaca |url=https://www.msn.com/es-mx/noticias/mexico/muere-por-coronavirus-alcalde-de-santa-cruz-xitla-oaxaca/ar-BB19midU?ocid=msedgdhp |accessdate=Sep 24, 2020 |work=www.msn.com |publisher=Milenio |date=September 23, 2020}}