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Huexotla.

Headword: 
Huexotla.
Principal English Translation: 

an important Acolhua-Chichimec community in central Mexico; spelled Huejutla today (Huejutla de Reyes), it is located in the state of Hidalgo

Orthographic Variants: 
Uexutla, Uexotla, Huejutla
Attestations from sources in English: 

Izcate in chichimeca tlatoque catca vexutla in moteneoa aculoaque in vmpa achto açico aculhoacan chichimeca. = Behold, the Chichimeca, rulers of Uexotla were known as Acolhua. There the Acolhua Chichimeca first arrived. (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 8 -- Kings and Lords, no. 14, Part IX, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1951), 13.

Izcate in chichimeca tlatoque catca vexutla in moteneoa aculoaque in vmpa achto açico aculhoacan chichimeca. = Behold, the Chichimeca rulers of Uexotla were known as Acolhua. There the Acolhua Chichimeca first arrived.
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 8 -- Kings and Lords, no. 14, Part IX, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1951), 13.