Chacaltianguis

The municipality of Chacaltianguis is placed in the country of Veracruz within the southern part of the kingdom, inside the region known as Papaloapan. It is one of the 212 municipalities of the entity. The municipality is made from 12 localities wherein 11,416 humans stay. Chacaltianguis has its starting place in pre-Hispanic times. In the sixteenth century it turned into a town issue to Otatitlan. As a ways because the spiritual jurisdiction belonged to Guaspaltepec, but at the quit of the 16th century this town disappears, the priest actions to Chacaltianguis organising there the parochial head.

In the year 1600, it had 37 tributaries that cultivated cotton and cocoa. They have been from the Popoluca country and spoke Nahuatl. The church became small with thatched roof, as become the parish residence. In 1746, it became inhabited with the aid of 7 families of Spaniards, 18 families of mulattos and blacks, and 65 households of Popoluca Indians. In its vicinity there were 19 turbines or mills that produced sugar and brown sugar and also grew corn and cotton. In 1831, Chacaltianguis turned into known as San Juan Bautista Chacaltianguis.