Tlazcozauhtitlan

Tlalcozautitlan lay in the upper Balsas basin, where a Nahua town collected tribute for Tenochtitlan. Its name was associated with tecozáhuitl, a yellow substance included among the goods sent as tribute alongside cotton, cloth and honey. Irrigation was practiced in the river basin, drawing on older local traditions. Under Spanish rule the town became the seat of a corregimiento, which was joined to that of Chilapa around 1600.