Asuncion Nochixtlan

Asuncion Nochixtlan is a city in the Mexican country of Oaxaca, located in the Mixteca Region. It is the pinnacle of the District of Nochixtlan and the municipality of Asuncion Nochixtlan. What these days is the modern day city of Asuncion Nochixtlan has its beginning in the ancient settlement of Mixtec culture, in line with oral facts, the so called Old Nochixtlan turn out to be founded by way of the Mixteco chief Ndazahuidandaa about in the yr 909, as a military garrison , remained till the year three residence four rabbit of the Mixteco calendar, this is to say 1521 or 1522, the same one of the starting of the Conquest of Mexico, while epidemics of cholera, plague, measles and smallpox, some of them brought via way of the conquerors, decimated to the population and gave upward thrust to the vintage Nochixtlan turn out to be abandoned.

In 1524 the conquistador Hernan Cortes had passed over the region of Nochixtlan to Pedro de Maya as encomienda. In 1812 the insurgent troops of Jose Maria Morelos occupied Nochixtlan on their manner to Oaxaca, after the Independence of Mexico it become mounted that all the populations with more than a thousand inhabitants must be constituted inside the municipality.