Tlacolula de Matamoros

Tlacolula de Matamoros is a town and municipality in the Mexican state of Oaxaca, about 30 km from the middle of the city of Oaxaca on Federal Highway 190, which leads east to Mitla and the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. It is a part of the Tlacolula District inside the east of the Valles Centrales Region. The Zapotecs probably arrived inside the crucial valleys of Oaxaca in the 2nd century CE. At that point, plenty of the Tlacolula location turned into included with the aid of a lake. Fray Juan de Torquemada notion that the Zapotecs arrived from a location known as Panuco and hooked up them first at Tule, with the first dominant agreement at Teotitlan Del Valle.

The early populations in the end tired the lake, and built a number of settlements. The first settlement nearest the modern-day metropolis is at what is now San Antonio de Los Angeles Cal, which changed into mounted around 1250 eventually, the Zapotecs dominated maximum of the imperative valley’s place. Tradition states that the metropolis was first based in Yagul, now an archeological site.