Tecoanapa

Tecoanapa lies inland from the Costa Chica of southern Mexico, among the foothills leading toward the Sierra Madre del Sur. The region was associated with the Yope people, whose territory resisted the expansion of the Mexica. In the late colonial period Tecoanapa belonged to the district of Acapulco. During the independence struggle it was included in the province of Tecpan created by José María Morelos in 1811.