Tlacotlalpan

Tlacotlalpan was a river port on the lower Papaloapan in Veracruz, founded in the twelfth century in the Totonac world. Its waterways later gave it a Nahuatl name meaning between the waters.

Around 1475 the Aztec emperor Axayacatl subjugated it during his campaign against Tochpan. Pedro de Alvarado sailed up the river in 1518; after Tenochtitlan fell, Alonso Romero received the town in encomienda. A corregimiento followed in 1541, and residents resisted a proposed move to Cosamaloapan in the early seventeenth century. Flooding in 1714 and fire in 1788 reshaped the town.