Iztachacalapan

Iztachacalapan was a settlement in the lowlands of southern Veracruz, on the route toward Acayucan, among the river country and forested plains of the Gulf coast. Its name is linked to a place called Chacalapan. In 1584 Juan de Figueroa requested four cattle properties at the same place, a sign that colonial land claims had reached a landscape with a much older Indigenous history.