Ozuluama

Ozuluama was a Huastec town on the coastal plain beside the Tamiahua Lagoon, in what is now northern Veracruz. Its name was associated with a jaguar and a fig tree.

Around 1450 the armies of Moctezuma I defeated the Huastec city-states; Ozuluama paid Aztec tribute while retaining local rulers. Local tradition also credited the Texcocan king Nezahualcoyotl with campaigns in the area. The Spanish overran the Huasteca between 1519 and the 1530s, and the town became a colonial settlement.