Teayotlan

Teayotlan was a Huastec town in the northern Veracruz Huasteca, at the site of Castillo de Teayo. Its Huastec name meant “on the stone turtle”, and its pyramid was built between the tenth and twelfth centuries.

In the Late Postclassic the town came under Toltec and Mexica influence. Around 1450 the Huastec polities became Aztec tributaries. The town’s pyramid-temple, with its stairway and crowning structure, showed Aztec architectural influence.