the place, office, and/or district of a corregidor (colonial Spanish official) (at root, a loanword from Spanish)
Alonso de Molina:
corregidoryotl. corregimiento. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 24v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.