Jicayan

Jicayán lies in the Mixtec country of the Oaxaca coast. Before the Spanish conquest, people from the Mixteca Alta came to the area, and coastal Mixtec rulers established a regional lordship. The history of the community and its lands was preserved in the Lienzo de San Pedro Jicayán, a painted document whose place names include glosses in Mixtec. Hills and river valleys link this inland centre with the Pacific coastal plain.