Atocpan

Atocpan, meaning on fertile soil in Nahuatl, was a Chichimeca village in the Milpa Alta valley south of Lake Xochimilco, one of nine villages tradition credits to thirteenth-century Chichimeca migrants and later subject to Xochimilco. In the fifteenth century it came under Mexica rule as part of the altepetl of Malacachtepec Momoxco, until the Spanish takeover of 1529.