Huitzilopochco

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".