Coixtlahuaca

{{Short description|Pre-Columbian Mesoamerican state in the Mixteca Alta}}

{{About|the pre-Columbian state}}

{{Infobox former country

|native_name = Nguichee
Yodzocoo
Coaixtlahuacan

|conventional_long_name = Coixtlahuaca

|common_name = Coixtlahuaca

|government_type = Monarchy

|capital = Coixtlahuaca

|common_languages = Chocho
Mixtec
Nahuatl

|religion = Mesoamerican

|year_start = 1080

|year_end = 1490{{Cite web|url=http://www.inafed.gob.mx/work/enciclopedia/EMM20oaxaca/municipios/20176a.html|title=Oaxaca - San Juan Bautista Coixtlahuaca|access-date=2018-02-17|archive-date=2020-04-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200415173307/http://www.inafed.gob.mx/work/enciclopedia/EMM20oaxaca/municipios/20176a.html|url-status=dead}}

|event_end = Incorporated into the Aztec Empire

|p1 =

|flag_p1 =

|s1 = Aztec Empire

|flag_s1 = Aztec Triple Alliance.png

}}

File:Atonal.jpg death and the conquest of Coixtlahuaca, in the Aztec Codex Mendoza.]]

File:Ex-Convento Coixtlahuaca.JPG

Coixtlahuaca (Chocho: Nguichee; Mixtec: Yodzocoo; Nahuatl: Coaixtlahuacan) was a pre-Columbian Mesoamerican state in the Mixteca Alta (now in Oaxaca, Mexico). Coixtlahuaca was a multi-ethnic polity, inhabited by both Chochos and Mixtecs. In addition to the Chocho and Mixtec languages, Nahuatl was used as a lingua franca. Its name means "plain of snakes". The state also exerted power over the Cuicatecans.Peter Gerhard, Guide to the Historical Geography of New Spain (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1972), p. 54

Coixtlahuaca was defeated by the Aztecs under Moctezuma I in the 15th century.

According to Hernán Cortés, envoys of Coixtlahuaca surrendered to the Spanish in September 1520. Coixtlahuaca was incorporated into New Spain as the municipality of San Juan Bautista Coixtlahuaca.