Cuauhchinanco

Cuauhchinanco was a Nahua altepetl in the forested Sierra Norte de Puebla, on the route between the Mexican highlands and Gulf lowlands. Its Nahuatl name meant within a wall of trees.

In the fifteenth century Nezahualcoyotl of Texcoco conquered it and installed tribute stewards. The province supplied Mexica armies fighting the Huastecs; under Ahuitzotl, from 1486 to 1502, its lord was Xochitl Tecuhtli. After the Spanish conquest it became Juan de Jaso's encomienda, remaining one into the eighteenth century before joining the province of Puebla in 1792.