Mixquiahuala

Mixquiahuala was an Otomi town in the Mezquital valley. Its Nahuatl name refers to a place surrounded by mesquite trees. Under Mexica rule the town paid tribute to Tenochtitlan; after the Spanish conquest it was divided among colonial encomenderos. A late sixteenth-century pictorial map places Mixquiahuala and its church within the surrounding territory, preserving a record of the community and its lands.