Ixcatlan

Ixcatlan was a town in the Ixcatec country of Oaxaca, with the dependent settlement of Axamulco under its authority. A map made in the sixteenth century shows its churches, place-name signs and seated ruling couples, along with boundaries toward Coixtlahuaca and Huautla and a branching river. The map's reverse is dated 14 November 1580 and names the corregidor Gonzalo Velásquez de Lara. Its Indigenous pictorial signs and Spanish or Nahuatl glosses show local territorial claims put into colonial legal procedure, and it is linked to a dispute over Axamulco in 1580.