Pantepec

Pantepec was a highland polity in the Sierra Norte of Puebla, with a town called Kachikin in Totonac. Around 1325 the Acolhua leader Tlachotla conquered the district, including Xicotepec, and attached it to his lordship.

From 1432 the territory paid bird feathers as tribute to Texcoco, whose ruler Nezahualcóyotl installed Quetzalpatzin as lord. In the sixteenth century Xicotepec had either 17 or 24 subject towns. Spaniards occupied it in 1533; two years later Augustinian friars founded the mission town of San José de Xicotepec.