Silacayoapam

Silacayoapam lies in the Mixteca of northwestern Oaxaca, among the valleys and rugged hills near the border of Guerrero. It was one of the Mixtec communities encountered by the Spaniards after their conquest of central Mexico. Early Augustinian missionaries travelled through Tlapa and Huamuxtitlán to Silacayoapam in the 1530s, before continuing toward the Pacific coast. The town stood on a route between the mountain lordships and the warmer lowlands.