Yaonahuac

Yaonahuac is one of the 217 municipalities of the Mexican country of Puebla , belonging to the place of the Northeast Sierra . Its municipal head is Santiago Yaonahuac. In the 12 months of 1519 Hernan Cortes conquered this town, submitted it to the enslaving device of encomiendas, in pre-Hispanic instances it belonged to the vintage district of Tlatlauquitepec and on February 17 , 1560 it received the category of town. In the year of 1895 it became a free municipality. The municipality became set up through Nahuas indigenous organizations who referred to as it "HUEYIYAONAHUAC", and which become based via indigenous organizations, which belonged to the Nahuatl-talking Mexica or Aztec culture.

It is stated that Cortes planted a tree called AHUHUETE in a community of Yaonahuac and that is now the neighborhood referred to as Ahuehuetes, this tree being representative of that town and municipality. In the pre-Hispanic generation it become subjected to the triple alliance. The municipality is placed in the northwest part of the State of Puebla.