Tecozautla

Tecozautla lies in the dry highlands west of the Mezquital Valley, among hills and river valleys at the edge of the Sierra Gorda. The region preserves traces of long Indigenous occupation, including the ancient hilltop settlement of Pahñú. In the sixteenth century Spanish missionaries established a convent at Tecozautla as they worked among communities on the frontier between central Mexico and the mountain country farther north.