Coatzacoalcos

Coatzacoalcos is a city and one of the most essential ports in southern Mexico, located inside the kingdom of Veracruz subsequent to the river of the equal call. Coatzacoalcos method in Nahuatl 'area in which the snake hides'. Its call is due to an historical legend that asserts that inside the year 947, four Quetzalcoatl arrived in this city and aboard a raft sailed across the river to wander away inside the horizon underneath the promise of returning someday.

The followers of Quetzalcoatl stayed in that area waiting for the go back of their leader; this is how the first settlements seemed inside the region. Within the Olmec geographical and cultural area, Coatzacoalcos changed into considered the capital of the province. At the end of the authorities of Axayacatl, the nearby populace rejected the hosts of the Mexica Empire in Cuilonimiquiztlan. During the Spanish conquest, Diego de Ordaz explored and surveyed the Coatzacoalcos River on the lookout for gold. On the commands of Cortes, Gonzalo de Sandoval and several captains conquered the metropolis of Coatzacoalcos and founded the city of Espiritu Santo in June 1522, upstream and at the proper bank, close to Barragantitlan or Paso Nuevo, presently the jurisdiction of the municipality of Ixhuatlan.