Yoko t'aanob

The Yoko t'aanob, also known as Chontal Maya or Putún, were a Maya people on the swampy Gulf coast of Tabasco. Their canoe-borne merchants dominated river and coastal trade routes in the Maya lowlands by the end of the Classic period.

In the sixteenth century their provinces included Potonchán and Xicalango. Juan de Grijalva met hostility in 1518; Hernán Cortés landed at Potonchán in 1519, where chief Tabscoob gave him the woman later known as La Malinche. Colonial resettlement emptied most old towns; only Nacajuca survived as an urban center, with a church built in 1614.