page_title: Tres Valles
section_title: Prehispanic era
hierarchical_section_title: Tres Valles / Etymology / Prehispanic era
caption_attribution_description: Español: Territorio bajo jurisdicción del pueblo prehispánico de Puctlancingo, en al actual estado de Veracruz, México. Basado en mercedes otorgadas a finales del siglo XVI y principios del siglo XVII.
context_page_description: Tres Valles is a town and municipality in the Mexican state of Veracruz, created as a free municipality by decree on November 25, 1988. It is located in the lower reaches of the Papaloapan, and borders the state of Oaxaca and the towns of Tierra Blanca and Cosamaloapan.
  The main source of income is agriculture, particularly sugar cane cultivation, but rice, corn, beans, pineapples, sorghum, and mangoes are also grown here.
context_section_description: This area of the lower Papaloapan was populated primarily by the Olmec, who disappeared for unknown reasons. Later, the area was inhabited by the Totonac, from approximately 500–100 BCE. By the time the Spanish arrived, the area had been conquered by the Mexicas, as with much of the Mesoamerican peoples.
  The current municipality of Tres Valles was divided between the jurisdictions of Cosamaloapan and Puctlancingo, but the only people on record within the current limits were the Puctlancingo, located at the confluence of the Amapa and Tonto rivers. It is likely that there were other small settlements at the time of conquest. A 1584 map showed a hill with ruins called Quateupan south of the Coapilla creek, near the river Tonto.
caption: Approximate territory under jurisdiction of Puctlancingo in the 16th century.
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