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tezoquitli.

Headword: 
tezoquitli.
Principal English Translation: 

a parcel of land heavy in minerals, clay, or rocky soil (see attestations)

Orthographic Variants: 
teçoquitli, tesoquitli
Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

occentetl notlal teçoquitli = otra mi tierra, un tesoquitli (Santa Bárbara Tamasolco, 1593)
Vidas y bienes olvidados: Testamentos indígenas novohispanos, vol. 1, Testamentos en castellano del siglo XVI y en náhuatl y castellano de Ocotelulco de los siglos XVI y XVII, eds. Teresa Rojas Rabiela, Elsa Leticia Rea López, y Constantino Medina Lima (Mexico: CIESAS, 1999), 208-209.

tierra arcillosa
Elsa Leticia Rea López, Vidas y bienes olvidados, vol. 4, 210–211.

themes: 
Land Tenure
Landscape Features