Xinca

The Xinca were a non-Maya people of the Pacific plain of southeastern Guatemala, particularly in the areas now called Santa Rosa and Jutiapa. Their languages were distinct from those of their Maya and Pipil neighbors.

On 26 May 1524 Pedro de Alvarado's Spanish and Indigenous forces defeated the defenders of Atiquipaque, an important Xinca city. After the conquest, communities paid tribute in cacao and other goods, and many Xinca were enslaved and forced to join the conquest of El Salvador.