Coatlicamac

Coatlicamac was a lowland kingdom on the frontier of southern Veracruz and Oaxaca, between Tochtepec and the jungles of Chinantla. Its settlements included Suchilapan in the Gulf Zoquean-speaking region.

After campaigns against Chinantec towns in the 1470s, the Mexica emperor Ahuitzotl defeated the Zoque in 1494 and imposed tribute, although highland and jungle communities retained much autonomy. Spanish conquest under Luis Marín began in 1523; by 1580 the district around Suchilapan and Texistepec was part of the colonial province of Coatzacoalcos.