Huehuetan

Huehuetán served as the capital of Soconusco from 1540 until 1700, when provincial authorities moved to Escuintla following the town's economic decline. Its standing as an administrative centre placed it within the Spanish colonial organisation of the Pacific coastal country. The church of San Pedro, dated locally to 1550, belonged to this sixteenth-century townscape.

The authorities returned temporarily in 1792 after a destructive storm at Escuintla. Huehuetán then served as headquarters of the Soconusco subdelegation within the intendancy of Chiapas, until the office moved to Tapachula in May 1794. In 1800 a major rise of the Huehuetán River devastated much of the settlement. Repeated moves of provincial government and the damage caused by flooding shaped the town's late colonial history, changing its position among the neighbouring administrative centres.

The later city of Tapachula de Cordova y Ordoñez lies here.