Ometepec Explained

Ometepec
Settlement Type:Municipal seat and city
Pushpin Map:Mexico Guerrero#Mexico
Pushpin Label Position:above
Pushpin Mapsize:300
Pushpin Map Caption:Location in Mexico
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name: Mexico
Subdivision Type1:State
Subdivision Name1:Guerrero
Subdivision Type2:Municipality
Subdivision Name2:Ometepec
Population As Of:2005
Population Blank1 Title:Ethnicities
Population Blank2 Title:Religions
Timezone:Zona Centro
Utc Offset:-6
Coordinates:16.6833°N -123°W

Ometepec is a city and the seat of the municipality of Ometepec, in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero.[1]

History

Ometepec was the capital of a strategic province of the Aztec Empire, which also included towns like Azoyú, San Luis Acatlán, Igualapa and Xochistlahuaca. Resources of the region included cotton, gold and cacao.[2] Ometepec and Igualapa spoke Amuzgo in addition to their own language called Ayacastec, which has since gone extinct without being documented.[3]

Notes and References

  1. [Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía]
  2. Book: Berdan . Frances . Aztec imperial strategies . 1996 . Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection . Washington, D.C . 9780884022114 . 278.
  3. Book: Wauchope . Robert . Cline . Howard . Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volume 12: Guide to Ethnohistorical Sources, Part One . 1972 . University of Texas Press . 9781477306802 . 310.