Cozalapan

Cozalapan corresponded to Cozolapa, a pre-conquest state in the Amula highlands of what is now southern Jalisco. Its villages included Cuzalapa, where western Otomi and Nahuatl were spoken.

Early in the sixteenth century Cozolapa joined Amole and Tuxcacuexco in repelling Purépecha incursions. The Spanish conquered it with the rest of Amula in 1523 and incorporated it into the colonial province of Amula; Franciscans arrived in the region in the 1540s, but no permanent church organization was established there until 1579.