Tesechoacan

Tesechoacan was a town on a tributary of the Papaloapan in southern Veracruz. In pre-Hispanic times it was a subject town of the lordship of Guaspaltepec.

Already under Mexica rule when the Spaniards arrived, it was conquered in Gonzalo de Sandoval's 1522 campaign and placed under encomienda. In 1742 San Miguel Tesechoacan remained a self-governing indigenous community, although most indigenous families had left after disputes with mulatto and black settlers. Those who remained traded cotton for cochineal with Villa Alta; the town became a municipality in 1831.