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Nopalapan.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
Nopalapan.
Principal English Translation: 

A small indigenous community in the vicinity of Zempoala (modern state of Mexico).

Detail from the map of Cempoala (Zempoala), Mexico, of Nov. 1, 1580; University of Texas at Austin, Relaciones Geográficas collection; http://www.lib.utexas.edu/benson/rg/rg_images3.html