Quiahuiztlan

Quiahuiztlan was a fortified Totonac city on Cerro de los Metates, near the Gulf coast of Veracruz. Its terraces held a town, a ballcourt and a walled cemetery.

In the early fifteenth century the Aztecs subjugated Quiahuiztlan and imposed the cults of Tlaloc and Huitzilopochtli. In 1519 Cortés founded Villa Rica de la Vera Cruz below the hill and made an alliance at Quiahuiztlan with some thirty Totonac towns. The city was abandoned during the conquest.