Irritila

Irritila was a name used in colonial accounts for an Indigenous language and people around the lower Nazas and Lake Mayrán, in the Comarca Lagunera of northern Mexico. The name covered a scatter of related communities rather than one tribe with fixed borders, and Jesuit missionaries wrote of them in their annual reports.

An annual report of 1598 referred to the Irritila language and to a local leader named Antonio. It described instruction in Irritila and in Mexican, or Nahuatl, which served communication between groups. Rivers and fluctuating lakes gave this dry region productive fishing and gathering grounds. Fishing, hunting waterfowl and collecting plants formed part of local subsistence. Communities moved through a landscape whose waters expanded or contracted with rainfall.

The later city of Torreón lies here.