Chiyautla

Chiyautla was a Nahua-speaking town in the Mixteca lowlands of southern Puebla, on the frontier between Nahua and Mixtec country. It dominated the district with Cuetzallan, Ocotlán and Tzontecomapan.

Under Aztec rule Chiyautla became a provincial seat, receiving cotton, copal and salt from subject towns. Spanish forces seized it in 1520 and granted it in encomienda to Diego de Ordaz. It became a royal corregimiento in 1534; silver discoveries in the 1540s raised it to an alcaldía mayor, and Augustinians founded a convent in 1550.