However, one interpretation has the name coming from the word tatzco which means "where the father of the water is", due to the high waterfall near the town center on Atatzin Mountain.

In pre-Hispanic times, this village was the most important in the area as it was the seat of the Aztec governor who presided over tribute collection in the surrounding seven districts.

[2] The modern Spanish city of Taxco was founded by Hernán Cortés in an area previously known as Tetelcingo.

His son, Martín Cortés, 2nd Marqués del Valle de Oaxaca, inherited it but he probably never set foot in it as he arrived to Mexico in 1563 and was practically deported back to Spain in 1566.

The estate is now the home of the Regional School of Earth Sciences of the Universidad Autónoma de Guerrero.