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ochpantli.

Headword: 
ochpantli.
Principal English Translation: 

great road(s); wide road(s); wide avenue(s); highway(s); a wide and royal road (see Molina); up to "15 brazos" wide (see attestations)

Orthographic Variants: 
uchpantli
Alonso de Molina: 

ochpantli. camino ancho y real.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 75r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

See an image that represents ochpantli in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).

ynin omoteneuhque mimicque ynic tlatzontequililoque Justiciatica mochinton xexelolozquia ynic ynnacayo miyxtlapanazquia vmpa onmopipilozquia mochi yn ipan yzqui heuhuey ohtli ochpantli hualcallaqui Mexico = the said dead were all to be cut up and their bodies divided into pieces, which were going to be hung here and there on all the main roads and highways coming into Mexico. (central Mexico, 1612)
Annals of His Time: Don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, James Lockhart, Susan Schroeder, and Doris Namala, eds. and transl. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006), 224–225.

huel ochpantli ytenco = close to the edge of the highway (Coyoacan, 1575)
Beyond the Codices, eds. Arthur J.O. Anderson, Frances Berdan, and James Lockhart (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center, 1976), Doc. 21, 116–117.

vchpantli = highways (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
James Lockhart, We People Here: Nahuatl Accounts of the Conquest of Mexico, Repertorium Columbianum v. 1 (Los Angeles: UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 1993), 104.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

ochpantli s. Gran camino, calzada espaciosa, ancha. R. otli, pantli.
Rémi Siméon, Diccionario de la lengua náhuatl or mexicana redactado según los documentos impresos y manuscritos más auténticos y precedido de una introducción (Mexico: Siglo Veintiuno, 1981, {1885}), 352.

"Podemos concluir entonces que el cemacolli era la extensión entre la articulación del hombro y la punta de los dedos del mismo brazo; su equivalencia sería aproximadamente de 0.80 m; la cual puede corroborarse con la anchura de '15 brazos' que da Tezozómoc a la calzada de Xochimilco y las calculadas para los uchpantli por los conquistadores."
Víctor M. Castillo F., "Unidades nahuas de medida," Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl 10 (1972), 216.

themes: 
Transportation, Travel