Chilapa

Chilapa, known as Chilapan before the Spanish conquest, was a Coixca town in the valleys of central Guerrero. Its Nahuatl-speaking inhabitants lived among Tlapanec, Chontal and Matlame communities and traded food, honey and mats for coastal salt and cacao.

In 1458 Moctezuma I sent Texolo Tecutlicute to establish an outpost on Chilapantepetl hill, bringing the area under Mexica rule. Gonzalo Sandoval took the hill town in 1522. After an Indigenous revolt in 1531, Augustinian friars arrived in 1533 and moved its inhabitants to the valley below.