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tlalhuehuetque.

Headword: 
tlalhuehuetque.
Principal English Translation: 

"land-elders"; altepetl officials (from tlalli, land, and huehuetque, elders)
James Lockhart, The Nahuas after the Conquest: A Social and Cultural History of the Indians of Central Mexico, Sixteenth through Eighteenth Centuries (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1992), 144.

themes: 
Land Tenure
Politics, Power, Governance
Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods