Tesechoacan

Tesechoacán stands beside the river of the same name in the warm Papaloapan basin. The river descends from the mountains of Oaxaca, winds across the Gulf coastal plain and joins the Papaloapan near Tlacotalpan. Around 1600 the town was described as a community subject to Guaspaltepec, with fields of cotton and cacao near the forest. Its inhabitants spoke Nahuatl, and the river ran beside their settlement.