Cuetlaxtlan

Cuetlaxtlan, known in Spanish as Cotaxtla, was the head of a tributary province on the Gulf lowlands. Its territory lay among the rivers and settlements of central Veracruz, where the coastal plain rises toward the mountains. Nahuatl chronicles remember it among the eastern places brought under Mexica power. The Mexica expansion toward the Gulf under Moctezuma I reached both Cuetlaxtlan and Ahuilizapan. Later accounts describe resistance among the coastal peoples as well as the valuable goods demanded from conquered lands, including cotton cloth, feathers and cacao. The conquest of these eastern territories also helped cut the routes connecting the rival Tlaxcalans with the coast.