Huitzilopochco Explained

Conventional Long Name:Huitzilopochco
Common Name:Huitzilopochco
Government Type:Monarchy
Common Languages:Nahuatl
Religion:Pre-Columbian Nahua religion
Year Start:15th Century
Year End:1520s
Event End:Incorporated into New Spain
Era:Pre-Columbian
S1:Viceroyalty of New Spain
Flag S1:Flag of New Spain.svg

Huitzilopochco (sometimes called Churubusco, and other variants) was a small pre-Columbian Nahua altepetl (city-state) in the Valley of Mexico. Huitzilopochco was one of the Nauhtecuhtli ("Four Lords"), along with Culhuacan, Itztapalapan and Mexicatzinco. The name Huitzilopochco means "place of Huitzilopochtli (a god)" in Nahuatl. The inhabitants of Huitzilopochco were known as Huitzilopochca.