Axochitlan

Axochitlan, later spelled Ajuchitlan, was a Cuitlatec-speaking community in the Balsas River lowlands of what is now Guerrero. In the late Postclassic period the Purépecha of Michoacán held the basin and drew tribute from its towns.

After the Spanish conquest, Ajuchitlan became an encomienda in 1528 and reverted to the Crown in 1534. In 1579 it headed a jurisdiction; a local account compiled with Tarascan and Cuitlatec interpreters recorded that Cuitlatec was still spoken in its villages.