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Huaxtepec.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
Huaxtepec.
Principal English Translation: 

Today spelled Oaxtepec, in the modern Mexican state of Morelos, this was a Nahua community.

Relación Geográfica of September 24, 1580; Benson Latin American Collection, University of Texas at Austin; http://www.lib.utexas.edu/benson/rg/rg_images9.html

Orthographic Variants: 
Guaxtepec, Oaxtepec
IPAspelling: 
wɑːʃtepeːk
Frances Karttunen: 

HUĀXTEPĒC place name Oaxtepec See HUĀX-IN, TEPĒ-TL.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 82.