Tzapotzingo

Tzapotzingo was a lordship of the coastal country of Nayarit, among neighbours such as Aztatlán and Senticpac. Its ruler Francisco Pantecatl provided a narrative preserved by the colonial chronicler Antonio Tello, relating the passage of Mexica ancestors from Aztatlán and their encounters with other peoples. Such accounts preserve a memory of movement and conflict among the lordships of western Mexico before the establishment of Spanish rule.