Geographic Location

Tehuacán Township is located in the southeastern part of the state of Puebla. Its geographic coordinates are the parallels 18 º 22'06'' and 18 º 36'12'' longitude north and the meridians 97 º 15'24 "and 97 º 37'24" west longitude. Their limits are on the north Tepanco Lopez, Santiago Miahuatlan, Nicolás Bravo and Vicente Guerrero, east of Vicente Guerrero, San Antonio Cañada and Ajalpan, south to San Gabriel Chilac, Zapotitlán and Altepexi and West with Zapotitlán, San Martín Atexcal John N. Tepango Mendez and Lopez.

Glyph of Tehuacan

It is the symbol of the sun, Tonatiuh "City of Gods", comes from the Nahuatl word theo-god,hua-particle, can-place

This is the currently accepted glyph city of Tehuacán. It is based on the work of Felipe Franco's 1946 Geographic Indonimia Puebla State, same as inferred from the word Teohuacan, ie instead of gods or the sun.
(From "La Fortaleza del Cerro Colorado Tehuacan Puebla," Galvez Mauricio Rosales)

The glyph is interpreted as follows: At the bottom you can see a gum with teeth, which means "place". The album is a solar symbol, or sacred. Hence, to be known as Tehuacán "City of Gods", "Place of those gods", "Place of those with God"

The Shield of Tehuacan

Original:

"Acta: En el pueblo de Tehuacán a 16 días del mes de marzo de 1660 el Sr. Dr. Manuel de Escalante y Mendoza en virtud de las cédulas de su majestad cuya ejecución y cumplimiento le es cometida por el Excmo. Duque de Albuquerque se inserte con pie y cabeza de ella y mandamiento de su excelencia hacia e hizo gracia y merced a este dicho pueblo de Nuestra Señora de la Concepción de Tehuacán del título y nombre de Tehuacán Ciudad de Indios para que de aquí en adelante y para siempre jamás se pueda titular e intitule, la Ciudad de Nuestra Señora de la Concepción y Cueva."

Translation:

ACTA: In the town of Tehuacan to 16 days of March 1660 Mr. Escalante and Dr. Manuel Mendoza under the bonds of His Majesty the execution and fulfillment you are committed by the Hon. Duke of Albuquerque insert foot and head with it and command excellence towards grace and mercy and made this the people of Our Lady of the Conception of the Tehuacán ,Tehuacán title and name City Indians to hereinafter and forever and holder, the City of Our Lady of Conception and Cave.

Shield awarded the city in the year 1660.

A quartered shield:

In the first quarter is the black eagle on a cactus with two arrows in the right claw and one crossed by the legs and left three cornstalks with ears of gold which the natives call Miahuatl in the blue field.

The second quarter, with a black eagle on a white field with golden beak and put a paw on a teponaxtle golden and the other lifting and grabbing two arrows and the right side of the eagle one ayacaxtle or rattle that is playing an instrument and natives dancing and a drum just below and to the left side of teponaxtle both sides, and below a Quetzal or bundle of feathers.

In the third quarter a blanket that made ​​the shot and the end of their guns a red flower in her tongue and a bird called Tlaxochitl biting a flower at the foot of a tree that kills as coming from him, who call their language mesquite and left a castle on a hill that has a large cave underneath and near the castle some red and white stones, four pockets having said castle out three arrows on the one hand and between the first and second top maixquahuitl get an instrument with which fought in antiquity and in the other two side pockets two arrows left and go through them in one maixquahuitl.

In the fourth quarter a head like that is freshly beheaded by a hand coming out of the left that has slope of hair from the right side and the other hand holding a bow and grabbed amid quartered head Chimalpopoca, and as a crest, the Virgin of the Conception.

History of Tehuacan

Archaeological finds show that it was inhabited by village communities 8500 years before Christ. He had a major role in the process of domestication and cultivation of plants. In Tehuacán found the oldest fossil of corn in the world.

In 1454 Moctezuma invaded and conquered the place to be a strategic point for further conquests. The population fled to the hill  Colorado where they were finally defeated , and after the defeat of the Aztecs the August 13, 1521 was submitted to the Spanish.

On 16 March 1660 the Indians to the Spanish crown bought the title of "City Indians" under the name of Our Lady of Conception and Cave.

During the War of Independence was the headquarters of several leaders like Jose Maria Morelos, Nicolás Bravo, Manuel Mier y Teran, besides hosting the Congress of Anáhuac in the Cathedral Church.

On August 31, 1884, issued by decree H. State Legislature, and to honor the memory of Don Juan Crisostomo Bonilla was designated "Tehuacán de John Chrysostom Bonilla ".

Currently Tehuacán is also known as the grenades and their springs as Tehuacan City Health.