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Quecholac.

Headword: 
Quecholac.
Principal English Translation: 

an altepetl near Tecamachalco (modern state of Puebla)

Orthographic Variants: 
Quechollac
Attestations from sources in English: 

"Juan de la Cruz and Diego Ramirez...appear as alcaldes in the Quecholac cabildo between l552 and l555."
Jack Anthony Licate, Creation of a Mexican Landscape (1981), 74.

"...Cortés then asked for Tlaxcaltec assistance in punishing the towns of Tepeyacac,Q uecholac, and Tecamachalco."
Ross Hassig, Mexico and the Spanish Conquest (2014).

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