Potonchán
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Potonchán was the capital city of the Chontal Mayan kingdom of Tabasco. It was located on the left bank of the Tabasco River in the current Mexican state of Tabasco.
Monumento a Tabscoob
The encounter between Juan de Grijalva and the Mayan chief Tabscoob occurred in Potonchán on June 8, 1518.
Hernán Cortés, Conqueror of Potonchán and founder of Santa María de la Victoria, first Spanish settlement in New Spain.
Entrance of Hernán Cortés into the city of Potonchán in 1519.
La Malinche
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Marina or Malintzin, more popularly known as La Malinche, was a Nahua woman from the Mexican Gulf Coast, who became known for contributing to the Spanish invasion of the Aztec Empire, by acting as an
Potonchán
…just before the year 1512. In tribute, the people of Xicalango presented several women to the chief Tascoob, one of which was Malintzin (famed as "La Malinche"), who was later given to Cortés after the Battle of Centla in 1519. The little that is known of Potonchán is thanks to the chronicles of the Spanish…
Malintzin, in an engraving dated 1886.
Codex Azcatitlan, Hernán Cortés and Malinche (far right), early 16th-century indigenous pictorial manuscript of the conquest of Mexico
La Malinche and Hernán Cortés in the city of Xaltelolco, in a drawing from the late 16th-century codex History of Tlaxcala
The meeting of Cortés and Moctezuma II, with Malinche acting as interpreter.