Mizantla

Misantla was a Totonac town in the river valley of northern Veracruz, among the mountains of the Sierra de Chiconquiaco. The region was inhabited by Totonacs and had been invaded by Chichimecs before 1337.

In 1486 the Aztecs made Misantla a frontier provincial seat, receiving liquidambar resin as tribute at Tenochtitlan. Its ruler when the Spanish arrived was Macuilcuauhhuitzli. After the conquest Franciscan friars gathered dispersed inhabitants into a mission town, moved in 1564 to the junction of the Palchán and Misantla rivers.