Tziuhcoac

Tziuhcoac was a Huastec town in the inland hills between Tuxpan and the Otomi stronghold of Metztitlan. Later Spanish documents called it Cicoaque.

Huastec polities paid tribute to the Aztec Empire after Moctezuma I's campaigns around 1450, but kept their rulers and repeatedly revolted. In 1486 Ahuitzotl stormed Tziuhcoac and took captives who were sacrificed at Tenochtitlan's Great Temple in 1487. After the Spanish conquest, Cicoaque appeared among the Tuxpan estates granted to Hernán Cortés in 1529.