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Cuetlachteca.

Headword: 
Cuetlachteca.
Principal English Translation: 

an ethnic group on the Gulf Coast
Mayas y olmecas: segunda reunión de mesa redonda sobre problemas antropológicos de México y Centroamérica (1942, 25).

Orthographic Variants: 
Cuetlachtecah, Cuetlachtecatl
Attestations from sources in English: 

This ethnic identity would be associated with a place called Cuetlachtlan, "Near the Wolves," which was a province as well as an altepetl (today spelled Cotaxtla) in what is now central Veracruz.
Hubert Howe Bancroft, The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft: The native races (1882, 417).