Yautepec

Yautepec, whose Nahuatl name means hill of black corn, was a Zapotec town in the hill country beyond the eastern end of the Oaxaca valleys, near Tlacolula. Its people spoke a distinct Zapotec tongue now called Yautepec Zapotec, and like the other Zapotec communities of the region it passed under Spanish rule with the conquest of Oaxaca in 1521.