Ayotlan

Ayotlan, later Ayutla, was a Tlapanec town on the Costa Chica of eastern Guerrero, near the land of the Yopi. Its people lived between the coastal plain and the inland hills, where gold and cacao were sources of wealth.

In the 1480s the Aztecs probably conquered the area under Ahuitzotl and made Ayotlan a province including Copala. A garrison and tribute steward faced conflicts with the Yopi and rival towns; the province sent cotton, fish, skins and gold twice a year. Spanish forces overran the coast in the 1520s, and Ayutla became a colonial town.