Tlachco

Tlachco, meaning place of the ballgame in Nahuatl, was a mountain town in northern Guerrero, at the site later called Taxco El Viejo. Its people included Matlatzinca, Chontal and Tlahuica communities.

Aztec armies raided the region under Itzcoatl, and an imperial governor took residence in 1445. Some inhabitants were resettled from Cuauhnáhuac by the Aztec ruler Ahuitzotl. In 1521 a party sent by Cortés found silver near the old village; a mining camp founded at nearby Tetelcingo in 1528 grew into Taxco. In the eighteenth century José de la Borda expanded mining there.