Yopitzinco

Yopitzinco was the Nahuatl name for the country of the Yopi, a branch of the Tlapanec or Me'phaa people. They held the mountains of the Costa Chica east of Acapulco, with their principal town at Tlapan.

Yopitzinco remained independent despite being surrounded by Aztec territory. The Mexica never conquered it, but invited Yopi envoys to rulers' coronations in Tenochtitlan. Spanish forces arrived in the early 1520s; after a rebellion was crushed, European diseases killed many surviving Yopi, and others dispersed among neighboring settlements.