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Coaxoloc.

Headword: 
Coaxoloc.
Principal English Translation: 

a place name that may draw from a female deity's name (see attestations); and/or, could it have a relationship to cuaxochtli (boundary)?

Orthographic Variants: 
Covaxolloc, Couaxolloc, Coaxolloc
Attestations from sources in English: 

Coaxolloc = one of the boundaries of the Nonohualca of Tollan (Tula)
Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca, 4v. Taken from the image of the folio published in Dana Leibsohn, Script and Glyph: Pre-Hispanic History, Colonial Bookmaking, and the Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca (Washington D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks, 2009), 65. Paleography and regularization of this toponym by Stephanie Wood.

Cuaxolotl (Xolotl-Head or perhaps Double- or Split-Head), was a female fertility deity; also called Chantico, she overlapped with Xochiquetzal, Cihuacoatl, and other fertility goddesses
Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan, et al. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 112.

themes: 
Names (places)
See also: 
cuaxochtli.