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mojonera.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
mojonera.
Principal English Translation: 

the location of a boundary marker, the place of the mojón

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

tepexon mol con moxonero = una rincón de piedra con mojonera;
ymoxonero yhua quacxotli = el mojonero y el cuaxochtli (siglo XVII, zona de Chalco)
Yukitaka Inoue, "Fundación del pueblo, cristianidad y territorialidad en algunos títulos primordiales del centro de México," Cuadernos Canela 18 (2006), 121, Citando a AGN Tierras 2819, esp. 9, fs. 335r. y 342r.

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