Draft:Chiametla
State of the Mesoamerican postclassic located in the modern Mexican states of Sinaloa and Nayarit
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Chiametla (Cora: Caulián) was a state of the Mesoamerican postclassic located in the modern Mexican states of Sinaloa and Nayarit. It bordered the Tahue people to the northwest, the Xiximes to the north, Xecora to the northeast, and Aztatlan to the south. The Piaxtla River and the Sierra Madre Occidental formed natural borders to the north and northeast respectively.
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Chiametla Caulián | |||||||
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| c. 800–1530 | |||||||
| Official languages | Cora (Totorame) | ||||||
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• Established | c. 800 | ||||||
| 1530 | |||||||
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History
The population of Chiametla belonged to the Totorame (Cora[1]) ethnicity and were enemies of the Xiximes, their warlike neighbors to the east. They were also enemies of the Coras of Xécora, who called Chiametla Mucchita, and with whom they had a war in the early 1500s.
In 1530 the conquistador Nuño de Guzmán, after defeating the nearby kingdom of Xalisco, headed north with an army of 15 thousand Tlaxcaltecs. In Chiametla, they were received peacefully by the local ruler Xahuatl, who agreed to pay tribute. Afterwards, Guzmán left for the Tahue territory of Culiacán.
Nuño de Guzmán founded encomiendas in the region, but they soon collapsed due to the epidemics of contagious diseases. In Chiametla and Culiacán, the most intense outbreak occurred between 1535 and 1536, By 1548 only 16 thousand natives remained in Culiacán out of a previous population of 200 thousand, and only 5 thousand in Chiametla out of a previous 210 thousand. The epidemics were thus devastating for the region, and even the Spaniards abandoned the area. The newly depopulated regions were later invaded by the Xiximes, finally being repopulated at the end of the century.