Huaquechula

Huaquechula
Coat of arms
Area
– Total	223.25 km2 (86.2 sq mi)
Population (2005)
– Total	26,114
Website	http://www.huaquechula.gob.mx/

Location of Huaquechula within Puebla.

Huaquechula is the name of a municipality in east Puebla, Mexico, as well as the name of the town that is its municipal seat.

The name Huaquechula comes from Nahuatl Quauhquechollan, meaning "place of eagle-spoonbills".

In the early 16th century, the place was the site of an armed clash between Tlaxcaltecas and Mexicas in which the former wreaked bloody havoc. A son of Moctezuma Xocoyotzin ('Moctezuma the Younger', or Moctezuma II; c.1466-June 29, 1520), the Huey Tlatoani of the Mexicas from 1502 until 1520, died there in combat.^[1]

1. ^ Francisco Javier Clavijero, Historia antigua de México, Book V, p. 203. Cited in Próspero Cahuantzi, 'La ortografía de la palabra Cuauhtémoc', Boletín de la Sociedad Mexicana de Geografía y Estadística, Quinta época, tomo II, 1907, p. 101.

Coordinates: 18°46′N 98°33′W / 18.767°N 98.55°W / 18.767; -98.55