Coxquihui

The municipality of Coxquihui is placed in the state of Veracruz inside the mountainous middle of the state, within the vicinity called Totonaca. The town of Coxquihui has its antecedents inside the pre-Hispanic community of Izquintlan, location of dogs or tepezcuintles, whose ruins are positioned approximately one kilometer far from the municipal seat, in a locality this is currently known as El Ojital, belonging to this municipality.

The origin of this indigenous nucleus of the Totonac tradition and the time of its settlement within the vicinity is unknown, however surely they have been of the human beings displaced from the highlands with the aid of the continuous invasions of Chichimec companies, they got here to settle in these mountainous regions giving upward push to the cities consisting of Mecatlan, Meztitlan nowadays Filomeno Mata, which is likewise referred to as Santo Domingo, Coahuitlan, Chumatlan, Xalostoque, Zozocolco, in the state of Veracruz. Thus, hooked up, got here the Spanish conquest. These lands belonged to Diego de Porras, who inherited them inside the year 1553, when he dies his daughter Ana Maria de Porras and her husband Juan de Cuenca is the one who administers them, as Father Tomas Del Rincon tells us, in his metropolis and party of Mecatlan Achachalintla that dates from the year 1580 to 1582 about.