Iztapan
Iztapan was a small salt-working town on the Costa Grande of Guerrero, near Zihuatanejo Bay. Its Nahuatl name meant place of salt; the coast long remained independent of the highland empires.
Between 1497 and 1504 the Mexica ruler Ahuitzotl conquered the coast, which was recorded as the tribute province of Cihuatlan in the Codex Mendoza. The sixteenth-century Relaciones geográficas recorded Pantec at Iztapan and Pantla, while towns to the west spoke Tolimec and a form of Nahuatl served as the Zacatula district's lingua franca.