Calpan

Calpan is one of the 217 municipalities of the Mexican kingdom of Puebla. It is placed to the west of the entity, in the Angelo polis region. Its head is the town of San Andres Calpan. In this municipality is the previous Convent of Calpan, constructed inside the 16th century and listed as a World Heritage Site via UNESCO. Before the Spanish conquest, Calpan became referred to as an awesome warrior people, for that reason the Aztec Empire could not subdue under his rule and that paid him tribute.

The municipality became formerly inhabited through Nahuas. On August 16, 1519, Hernan Cortes left the seashores of what's now today is Veracruz and installation inward, towards the coronary heart of the Mexica Empire with an army of 13,000 Totonac warriors, 400 Spanish infantrymen with firearms and 15 horses. After the occasions in Tlaxcala and Cholula, en course to Tenochtitlan, Cortés step Calpan and endured to its vacation spot, additionally currently going thru what today is the municipality of San Nicolas de los Ranchos. Proof of this is the Franciscan Convent of Calpan courting from the 16sixteenth century 1548.