Mena - Oaxaca

Facts about Mena

Location of Mena

Mena is located in the municipality of Asunción Ixtaltepec in the Mexican state of Oaxaca with the GPS coordinates:
Longitude (dec): -95.010833
Latitude (dec): 16.658333

Height over sea level of Mena

The locations medium height over sea level is 100 meters.

Population in Mena

The over all population of Mena is 208 persons, 114 of them are male and 94 of them are female.

Age distribution

The population of this place consists of 42 minors and 166 adults, with 58 of them being 60 years and older.

Indigenous population of Mena

200 inhabitants of the location Mena in Mexico live in indigenous households. 149 of the citizens 5 years and older, speak an indigenous language. The count of people who only speak an indigenous language without having knowledge of the Spanish language is 6 people, while 141 as well speak Spanish.

Social structure

A legal claim on health care and social insurance benefits have 40 citizens of Mena.

Economic situation

In Mena exist about 75 households.

Of these households 75 are common houses or apartments, 8 are without floor and about 5 consist of one room only.

64 of the normal households have sanitary installations, 67 are connected to the public water supply, 72 have access to electricity.

The economic situation allows 2 households to own a computer, 25 own a washing machine and 60 households are equipped with one ore more televisions.

School and education in Mena

Besides the 46 analphabets aged 15 or older, about 0 minors between 6 and 14 are not visiting a school.

42 inhabitants of the population of 15 years and older did not visit a school and 98 persons did not finish the school. 21 visited only the 6 years lasting primary school, 13 visited and finished the college or similar scholar institutions.

A total of 10 aged 15 to 24 years visited a school, the medium time school is visited through the whole population is 4 years.