Santa Cruz Xitla

Santa Cruz Xitla
Municipality and town
Santa Cruz Xitla
Location in Mexico
Coordinates: 16°19′N 96°40′W / 16.317°N 96.667°W / 16.317; -96.667
Country Mexico
StateOaxaca
Time zoneUTC-6 (Central Standard Time)
  Summer (DST)UTC-5 (Central Daylight Time)

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.

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.