Cuauhtochco

Cuauhtochco was a Nahuatl-speaking polity on the north bank of the Río Atoyac in the Veracruz lowlands. Its centre stood at the site called Huatusco, in a region once part of Totonacapan.

Around 1454 a son of the Texcocan ruler Nezahualcóyotl conquered it for the Acolhua and Mexica. It became an Aztec tributary province, sending cacao, cotton and vanilla from the lowlands. After Tenochtitlan fell, its garrison held out until Gonzalo de Sandoval stormed it in November 1521; the district lost population in the early colonial years.