Nilapohuana

Nilapohuana was a valley in the mountain country of Durango, in northern Mexico, where the Sierra Madre Occidental breaks into valleys and plateau. Tepehuan communities lived across these highlands. The Tepehuan of Durango were divided into northern and southern groups, and Spanish pressure pushed the central Durango groups northward toward Chihuahua. The Tepehuan revolt of 1616 was not put down until about 1620.