Zacazonapan

Zacazonapan lies in the mountainous country west of the Valley of Toluca, where high ridges descend toward the warmer valleys of the Balsas basin. Its name comes from Nahuatl and refers to grass and water. The settlement belongs to a region inhabited by Matlatzinca and other Indigenous communities before Spanish conquest. Nearby Temascaltepec became a mining district in the sixteenth century, drawing settlers and labour into these mountains.