Tetela

Tetela was a mountain town in the Sierra Norte de Puebla, governed by a tlatoani. Four Chichimeca clans founded it in 1219, and their ruling lines lasted until the Spanish conquest.

Tetela fought flower wars with Zacatlan and Tlaxcala, then entered the Aztec Empire by diplomacy. It sent captives to Tenochtitlan in exchange for Mexica arms. Gold from La Canada earned it the name Tetela del Oro. Cortés crossed the mountains in 1519, and the Franciscan Andrés de Olmos began evangelizing the district in 1528. Nuestra Señora de la Asunción church was built in 1808.