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Culiacan.

Headword: 
Culiacan.
Principal English Translation: 

a community in western Mexico (see attestations)

Attestations from sources in English: 

This place is mentioned in a few annals as the destination of expeditionary groups leaving the Tlaxcallan region in 1529 and 1530. All references fail to spell the place name correctly, rendering it as "colhuacan" or "cozhuacan."
Frances Krug, "The Nahuatl Annals of the Tlaxcala-Puebla Region," ch. 5, p. 93, Ph.D. Dissertation draft written in the 1980s, with transcriptions and translations approved by James Lockhart. Cited here by SW.

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