chiassa

Updated: May 27, 2025

In the same year, 1523, Gil Gonçales de Avila, discovered and peopled a town called San Gil da Buena-vista, in lat. 14° N. almost in the bottom of the bay of Ascension or Honduras . Likewise, on the 6th December of this year, Peter de Alvarado was sent by Cortes from Mexico with 300 foot, 170 horse, four field-pieces, and some Mexican nobles, to discover and conquer Quahutemallan, Utlatlan, Chiassa, Xochnuxco, and other towns towards the South Sea.

Robert Kerr - A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 02 : Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time