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Teocalhueyacan.

Headword: 
Teocalhueyacan.
Principal English Translation: 

a place name; Teocalhueyacan was the Otomi part of a mixed Nahua-Otomi cabecera called Tlalnepantla; formerly Teocahueyacan was an "Otomi sujeto of Tacuba." It was "variously classified as an estancia, a barrio, a cabecera, a parte, and a pueblo."

Charles Gibson, The Aztecs Under Spanish Rule, 1964, 56.

Attestations from sources in English: 

Teocalhueyacan = a calpolli Otomí = otōcal[polco] = a place Spaniards took refuge after the dramatic escape from Tenochtitlan, when so many died (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Sahagún, Bernardino de, Antonio Valeriano, Alonso Vegerano, Martín Jacobita, Pedro de San Buenaventura, Diego de Grado, Bonifacio Maximiliano, Mateo Severino, et al. Historia general de las cosas de Nueva España (Florentine Codex), Ms. Mediceo Palatino 218–20, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence, MiBACT, 1577. Available at Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter, Alicia Maria Houtrouw, Kevin Terraciano, Jeanette Peterson, Diana Magaloni, and Lisa Sousa, bk. 12, fol. 45v. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/12/folio/45v/images/acbc1b76-1... . Accessed 17 February 2026.