Huaxpaltepec

Huaxpaltepec is one of the 570 municipalities that make up the Mexican nation of Oaxaca. It is the head of the municipality of San Andres Huaxpaltepec and belongs to the district of Jamiltepec, inside the Costa location of Oaxaca. Huaxpaltepec is a prehispanic town. Before the appearance of the Spaniards, the vicinity become dominated with the aid of the chiefdom of Tututepec, which comprised an in depth territory from the borders with the country of Guerrero to Huatulco, Oaxaca.

The nucleus of this cacicazgo was concentrated within the capital of Tututepec and in seven Mixtec capitals or settlements, one among which become Huaxpaltepec. Rodriguez factors out that Huaxpaltepec changed into constituted, before the conquest, as an exchange center in its periodic truthful, like Pinotepa la Chica and Juquila. During the colonial duration and with the brand new political structure, Huaxpaltepec become covered inside the province of Jicayan, in which the mayor lived who dominated the complete province. For the ones groups that, like Huaxpaltepec, had a significant population, an indigenous cabildo turned into integrated, whose shape changed into referred to as the Republic of the Indians, being represented by using an indigenous governor and numerous republic officials.