Otáez | |
Settlement Type: | Municipal seat and town |
Pushpin Map: | Mexico |
Pushpin Label Position: | above |
Pushpin Mapsize: | 300 |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Mexico |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Mexico |
Subdivision Type1: | State |
Subdivision Name1: | Durango |
Subdivision Type2: | Municipality |
Subdivision Name2: | Otáez |
Population As Of: | 2010 |
Population Total: | 871 |
Population Blank1 Title: | Ethnicities |
Population Blank2 Title: | Religions |
Coordinates: | 26.7°N -164°W |
Otáez is a town and seat of the municipality of Otáez, in the state of Durango, north-western Mexico.[1] As of 2010, the town had a population of 871.[2]
In the seventeenth century, Jesuit missionaries founded Santa María de Otaez.[3]