Lienzo de Quauhquechollan

[2] The Lienzo was probably painted in Ciudad Vieja, in the modern Guatemalan department of Sacatepéquez, by Nahua allies of the Spanish from the city of Quauhquechollan (now known as San Martín Huaquechula).

[7] In 2007, the Universidad Francisco Marroquín in Guatemala created a digitally restored version of the Lienzo de Quauhquechollan as part of its program 'Exploraciones sobre la Historia'.

[8] The Lienzo de Quauhquechollan was made sometime in the 1530s;[1] it consists of 15 individual pieces of painted cotton stitched together to form a large map.

[1] The Lienzo was executed in a central Mexican style using indigenous artistic conventions to portray a mixture of Nahua and Spanish subjects.

[14] The route of the army on its march to Guatemala is depicted, including Tehuantepec in Oaxaca and the Soconusco region of lowland Chiapas (both within the borders of modern Mexico).

The Lienzo records the first substantial conquest of Guatemala, and reveals that it were Jorge de Alvarado and his allies who are to be credited for this, and not his brother Pedro as had long been thought by historians.