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Totonacatlalli.

Headword: 
Totonacatlalli.
Principal English Translation: 

the land of the Totonaca people (Totonaques in Spanish) (see attestations)

Attestations from sources in English: 

"Totonacatlalli in tlalli in ipan onoque totonaque" = "Totonacatlalli: it is the land on which live the Totonaca" (translation by Anderson and Dibble); paraphrasing what else the text says: this region is in the hot lands, with mosquitos, and one does not live a long life, but flowers and fruits grow abundantly (SW) (1570s, central Mexico)
Sahagún, Bernardino de, Antonio Valeriano, Alonso Vegerano, Martín Jacobita, Pedro de San Buenaventura, Diego de Grado, Bonifacio Maximiliano, Mateo Severino, et al. Historia general de las cosas de Nueva España (Florentine Codex), Ms. Mediceo Palatino 218–20, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence, MiBACT, 1577. Available at Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter, Alicia Maria Houtrouw, Kevin Terraciano, Jeanette Peterson, Diana Magaloni, and Lisa Sousa, bk. 11, fol. 230v. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/11/folio/230v . Accessed 7 January 2026.

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