Tepecoacuilco

Tepecoacuilco lies in northern Guerrero, in the warm Balsas basin of southern Mexico. Before Spanish rule it gave its name to a province that paid tribute to the Mexica empire, and the tribute lists in the Codex Mendoza record the cloth, cacao, feathers and other goods its towns sent to Tenochtitlan. Its lords ruled the surrounding valleys from the town, which stood on a hill above the river. After the conquest of Tenochtitlan in 1521, Spanish officials took over the tribute, and Tepecoacuilco became a town of colonial administration.