Suchilapan

Suchilapan lies beside the Coatzacoalcos River in the lowlands of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, near the mouth of a tributary bearing the same name. Its Nahuatl name combines words for a flower and water. The settlement grew from a riverside cluster of fishermen known as El Súchil; the rivers of this district join the broad Coatzacoalcos on its course toward the Gulf of Mexico.