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Cuauhchichinollan.

Headword: 
Cuauhchichinollan.
Principal English Translation: 

a Nahua community in what is now the municipality of Mazatepec, in the state of Morelos, Mexico
(Cuernavaca region, ca. 1540s)
The Book of Tributes: Early Sixteenth-Century Nahuatl Censuses from Morelos, ed. and transl. S. L. Cline, (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 1993), 132–133.

Orthographic Variants: 
Quauhchichinolan, Cuauchichinola, Quauhchichinollan
Attestations from sources in English: 

Robert McCaa reports that in about 1537 this town had a population with 135 houses, many containing more than one married couple. Children numbered 226. He is drawing from the tributes records published by S. L. Cline, cited above.
"Child Marriage and Complex Families among the Nahuas of Ancient Mexico," Latin American Population History Bulletin 26 (Fall 1994).

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