Tehuantepec

(ta-wawn'ta-pak,) a town of Mexico, C. of a dept. of same name, state of Oaxaca, on the Tehuantepec, 150 m. E.S.E. of the city of Oaxaca. Pop. 17,000. - The river of this name, rising in the Sierra Madre, takes a S. course of 170 m. through the state of Oaxaca, and empties into the Pacific, near Ventosas. The Isthmus of T. extends from the mouth of the river Coatzacoalcos, in the Bay of Campeachy, to the Gulf of Tehuantepec on the Pacific, and has a width of 140 m. -The Gulf of T. forms a considerable inlet of the Pacific Ocean, bet. Mexico and Guatemala, E. Lon. 92-970, and is abt. 70 m. broad. [s. 881]