coatzacoalcos the most important port of the south of mexico

Coatzacoalcos is a city and one of the most important ports in southern Mexico, located in the state of Veracruz next to the river that bears the same name. Coatzacoalcos means in Nahuatl ‘place where the snake hides’. Your name
It is due to an ancient legend that tells that in the year 947, Quetzalcoatl arrived in this city and aboard a raft he sailed across the river until he lost himself on the horizon on the promise of returning one day. Quetzalcoatl's followers are
they stayed there waiting for the return of their leader, this is how the first settlements in the region appeared. Somewhere in the large area of ​​land between the Coatzacoalcos River and Ixhuatlán in the southeast, between
the Teapa and San Antonio rivers, was probably the indigenous town that the historians of the conquest say they have known, and that it is called Guazaqualco or Huazaqualco. Fr. Mier writes that when Quetzalcoatl arrived in Cholula
persecuted by Huemac, that one went to the coast possibly with the purpose of embarking having arrived precisely at this town, in which place Huemac lost it.