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Templo de Santo Tomás

Born in the tiny village of San Pablo Guelatao 60km northeast of central Oaxaca, future Mexican president, Benito Juárez was baptized in the nearby town of Ixtlán in this finely carved 17th-century baroque church which stands just above the central plaza.

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