Tetela

Tetela lies among the ridges and valleys of the Sierra Norte de Puebla. The mountains separate the high Mexican plateau from the humid lands descending toward the Gulf of Mexico. Nahua and other Indigenous communities inhabited the region before the Spanish conquest, maintaining settlements along its steep slopes and valleys. In 1519 the expedition of Hernán Cortés crossed the northern Puebla highlands through neighbouring Ixtacamaxtitlán on its way inland.