Ometepec

Ometepec
Municipal seat and city
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Coordinates: 16°41′N98°25′W / 16.683°N 98.417°W / 16.683; -98.417
Country	Mexico
State	Guerrero
Municipality	Ometepec
Time zone	UTC-6 (Zona Centro)

Ometepec is a city and the seat of the municipality of Ometepec, in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero. ^[1]

History

Ometepec was the capital of a strategic province of the Aztec Empire, which also included towns like Azoyú, San Luis Acatlán, Igualapa and Xochistlahuaca. Resources of the region included cotton, gold and cacao. ^[2] Ometepec and Igualapa spoke Amuzgo in addition to their own language called Ayacastec, which has since gone extinct without being documented. ^[3]

References

1. Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía. Principales resultados por localidad 2005 (ITER). Retrieved on December 23, 2008
2. Berdan, Frances (1996). Aztec imperial strategies. Washington, D.C: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection. p. 278. ISBN   9780884022114.
3. Wauchope, Robert; Cline, Howard (1972). Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volume 12: Guide to Ethnohistorical Sources, Part One. University of Texas Press. p. 310. ISBN   9781477306802.