What is "cutzamala"

Cutzamala may refer to:

• Cutzamala de Pinzón, municipality and township in the state of Guerrero, Mexico
• Cutzamala (Mesoamerican site), a pre-Columbian Mesoamerican archaeological site, a fortified garrison settlement in the Postclassic-era Tarascan state
• Cutzamala River, a river in the state of Guerrero, Mexico

Cutzamala is an archaeological site in the northern Guerrero region of Mexico. During the Postclassic period in Mesoamerican chronology the settlement of Cutzamala served as a garrison outpost of the Tarascan state, and according to ethnohistorical sources such as the Relaciones geográficas was stationed with a contingent of up to ten thousand Purépecha warriors during the period of conflict between the Purépecha and the Aztec Empire.