Pánuco (province)
The Province of Pánuco was a province of the Spanish colony of
Alonso Alvarez de Pineda. The province was the object of a power struggle between supporters of Cortés and his opponents, first divided into encomiendas
and allotted to Cortés supporters.
A gobierno (governorate) of San Esteban de Pánuco was created in 1523. Its territory may have corresponded to the Huasteca, as far north as the Pánuco River. This gobierno was absorbed by New Spain in 1534.[1]
In 1525 Nuño de Guzmán of the Anti-Cortés faction was appointed governor of Pánuco and he stripped Cortés' supporters of their encomiendas and undertook a policy of violent slave raids against the local Indians.[2]
References
- DeGruyter.
- ^ Chipman, Donald E. (1967). "2". Nuno de Guzman and the Province of Panuco in New Spain, 1518-1533. Glendale, California: Arthur H. Clark Co.