Tepanec

[1] The Tepanec were a sister culture of the Aztecs (or Mexica) as well as the Acolhua and others—these tribes spoke the Nahuatl language and shared the same general pantheon, with local and tribal variations.

Reputedly welcomed to the Valley of Mexico by the semi-legendary Chichimec[b] ruler Xolotl, the Tepanecs settled on the west shores of Lake Texcoco.

According to the tradition recompiled by several historians, the Tepanec people constituted one of the seven tribes that started the migration from Chicomoztoc (in nahuatl, "The Seven Caves"), a place which has no certain location.

The Tepaneca tribe claimed, by their military might, one of the best zones where they founded Azcapotzalco, the main altepetl of their territory, known as Tepanecapan.

When the Spaniard conquistadores arrived to the Valley of Mexico, the Tepaneca tribe was subject to the Triple Alliance, led by Tenochtitlan, and was not able to remain an independent ethnic group.