Ometepec
Ometepec | |
|---|---|
Municipal seat and city | |
Ometepec Location in Mexico Ometepec Ometepec (Mexico) | |
| Coordinates: 16°41′N 98°25′W / 16.683°N 98.417°W | |
| Country | Mexico |
| State | Guerrero |
| Municipality | Ometepec |
| Time zone | UTC-6 (Zona Centro) |
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]
References
- ^ Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía. Principales resultados por localidad 2005 (ITER). Retrieved on December 23, 2008
- ^ Berdan, Frances (1996). Aztec imperial strategies. Washington, D.C: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection. p. 278. ISBN 9780884022114.
- ^ Wauchope, Robert; Cline, Howard (1972). Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volume 12: Guide to Ethnohistorical Sources, Part One. University of Texas Press. p. 310. ISBN 9781477306802.