Toribio de Benavente Motolinia wrote "in any place… all know to work a stone, to make a house simple, to twist a cord and a rope, and the other subtle offices that do not require instruments or much art."

The Tecuexes wore dresses with classic tilmatl (tilma) and huipilli, worn with comfortable cactlis and adorned their bodies with necklaces, bracelets, earrings and nose rings that they themselves made.

The Tecuexes brought agaves from the wild, and cloned and grew them in open air settings to produce Tequila among other things[1] (called pulque back then and stored in jugs[2]).

According to Spanish missionary Juan de Padilla, Tonallan (Tonalá, Jalisco) was the biggest town under Tecuexe ruling.

Padilla attributes the victory of the Spaniards to the divine help of Saint James Matamoros, which explains why the first chapel built by the Tecuexe Catholics was named after Santiago.

The study of the toponyms of the Rio Verde region in Los Altos de Jalisco infers the presence of abundant words ending in íc/tíc, which is consistent with a similar phenomenon in the Valles de Tequila region, where very similar locative suffixes are usually related to the presence of groups speaking languages of the Corachol branch of the Uto-Aztec family.

A 1611 Petition to Remove a Priest in Jalostotitlan, a Tecuexe town, contained linguistic idiosyncrasies compared to central Mexican Nahuatl.

His army consisted of 200 Spaniards on horse, 300 infantry on foot, 10,000 Mexicas (Aztecs) and 10,000 Tarascos and Tlaxcaltecas who had switched to the Spanish side.