Huitzilopochco (sometimes called
Churubusco, and other variants) was a small
pre-Columbian
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Nahua
The Nahuas () are a group of the indigenous people of Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua. They comprise the largest indigenous group in Mexico and second largest in El Salvador. The Mexica (Aztecs) were of Nahua ethnicity, a ...
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altepetl
The (, plural ''altepeme'' or ''altepemeh'') was the local, ethnically-based political entity, usually translated into English as "city-state," of pre-Columbian Nahuatl-speaking societiesSmith 1997 p. 37 in the Americas. The ''altepetl'' was co ...
'' (
city-state
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) in the
Valley of Mexico
The Valley of Mexico ( es, Valle de México) is a highlands plateau in central Mexico roughly coterminous with present-day Mexico City and the eastern half of the State of Mexico. Surrounded by mountains and volcanoes, the Valley of Mexico wa ...
. Huitzilopochco was one of the ''
Nauhtecuhtli'' ("Four Lords"), along with
Culhuacan,
Itztapalapan and
Mexicatzinco. The name ''Huitzilopochco'' means "place of
Huitzilopochtli (a god)" in
Nahuatl
Nahuatl (; ), Aztec, or Mexicano is a language or, by some definitions, a group of languages of the Uto-Aztecan language family. Varieties of Nahuatl are spoken by about Nahua peoples, most of whom live mainly in Central Mexico and have smaller ...
. The inhabitants of Huitzilopochco were known as ''Huitzilopochca''.
1520s disestablishments in North America
Altepetl
States and territories established in the 15th century
15th-century establishments in North America
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