Tomatlan

Tomatlan was a coastal chiefdom on Jalisco's Pacific shore. Its Nahuatl name meant place of tomatoes; a sixteenth-century account recorded a distinct Tomatec language among its villages.

In 1525 Francisco Cortés de San Buenaventura entered Tomatlan on Holy Monday and was received by its cacique, bringing the coast under Spanish rule. Juan Fernández de Híjar held it in encomienda from 1533 to 1574. The region rose in the revolt of 1541, and Pedro de Alvarado marched twice from Manzanillo to subdue it.