Atepec

Atepec, whose Nahuatl name means the hill where water abounds, was a small mountain community in the Sierra Norte of Oaxaca, between the Zapotec polities of the Oaxaca valley and the unconquered Mixe country. In prehispanic times it was a subject town of neighbouring Teococuilco, whose people honoured the deity Quezelao as provider of the seasonal fields.