Cuaxomulco, Centronorte, Tlaxcala, Mexico Genealogy

Guide to Municipality of Cuaxomulco family history and genealogy: birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, parish registers, and military records.

History

 * The peaceful life of the pre-Hispanic populations of the Tzompantepec dominion, which included those of the Cuaxomulco territory, was violently interrupted by the small army that under the command of Hernán Cortés, according to the conquistador's own confession, devastated and burned, in retaliation for the resistance that the confederate army of the Republic of Tlaxcala managed to impose.
 * Cuaxomulco lived with anguish the hanging of Axotécatl, cacique of Tzompantepec, who after having converted to Catholicism, had returned to the practices idolatrous.
 * Cuaxomulco was born into municipal life on December 20, 1905, when it was erected as City Hall, separating from Tzompantepec.
 * The municipality of Cuaxomulco has a population of approximately 5,100 people.