Pantlan

Pantlan, also recorded as Panotlan, was a name applied to the Huastec country around the Pánuco River and the Gulf coast. Indigenous people known as the Panteca or Panoteca inhabited the region of riverbanks and coastal lagoons. Their language belonged to the Maya family, although their homeland lay far north of the main Maya regions. The name was understood as a place of passage, a fitting description for a coast connected by river and sea.

The later city of Tampico lies here.