Itzcuintlan

Itzcuintlan was a Pipil centre on the Pacific slope of Guatemala, in the country later known as Escuintla. Its warm lowlands supported maize and cacao, and the settlement stood below the volcanic highlands, among a number of Pipil towns whose fields occupied the coastal plain. The name Itzcuintlan was used by Nahuatl-speaking allies accompanying the Spanish; the place is also associated with the name Panatacat.

In 1524 Pedro de Alvarado advanced into the region after campaigns in the highlands. The Pipil resisted, and accounts relate that they submitted after threats against their fields and cacao groves. The conquest brought the fertile Pacific country under Spanish rule, while its Indigenous towns remained part of a landscape of cultivation that had existed long before the invaders arrived.