Tzapotzingo

Tzapotzingo was a small señorío in the Huichol country of the Nayarit coastal plain in western Mexico, with its seat at Tzapotzingo.

From 1529 Nuño Beltrán de Guzmán’s expedition swept through the region, which became part of Spanish Nueva Galicia. In 1540 Pentécatl, lord of Tzapotzingo, attended a ceremony in the Huasamota valley heralding the Mixtón War. He and his neighbours joined the Caxcanes against the Spaniards until Viceroy Antonio de Mendoza crushed the uprising in 1542.