Xochiapa

Xochiapa lies in the Papaloapan region of southern Veracruz. Its inhabitants cultivated land away from the settlement: an account of 1831 described the local soil as unproductive and recorded that villagers traveled six to eight leagues to plant crops among the ruins of Acuezpaltepec. At that time Xochiapa was already the principal settlement of its own municipality, despite the difficulty of farming close to the village.