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tlalapaztli.

Headword: 
tlalapaztli.
Principal English Translation: 

an earthen bowl; or, a ravine (see attestations)

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

"Tlalapaztli [es una] palabra empleada en el área de Amecameca para designar a una barranca en particular, su significado alude explícitamente a 'la olla de la tierra'".
Federico Fernández Christlieb, citando a una comunicación personal de John Sullivan. Ver Federico Fernández Christleib y Angel Julián García Zambrano, coordinadores, Territorialidad y paisaje en el altepetl del siglo XVI, México: Fondo de Cultura Económica y Instituto de Geografía de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, p. 446.

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