a place name; a community in the southern basin of Mexico, near Xochimilco and Cuitlahuac; one of the chinampa agricultural communities (see the Florentine Codex Book 12, Chapter 33)
Auh yn omotocateneuh tlahtohuani Axayacatzin oquinchiuh omentin ypilhuan ynic ce ytoca Moteuhcçoma xocoyotl. huey tlahtohuani ypan acico yn españolesme ynin yehuatl quinnamic ynic ome ypilhuan axayacatzin ytoca cuetlahuatzin achtopa tlahtohuani catca yn ompa ytztapallapan auh çatepan çan nauhpohualilhuitl yn ontlahtocatico nican tenochtitlan yn oyuh momiquilli ytiachcauhtzin Moteuhcçomatzin xocoyotl. = And the aforenamed ruler Axayacatzin begot two sons. The first was named Moteucçoma Xocoyotl, the great ruler. The Spaniards arrived in his time; he received them. The second of Axayacatzin's sons was named Cuitlahuatzin. At first he was ruler of Itztapalapan, but later he was ruler of Tenochtitlan for only eighty days, and his elder brother Moteucçomatzin Xocoyotl had died. (central Mexico, early seventeenth century)