Names of Places
- Cancún
- Guatemala
- Culiacán
- Cuzcatlán
- Iztaccíhuatl (a volcano)
- Jalisco
- Mazatlán
- Mexico
- Oaxaca
- Popocatépetl (a volcano)
- Tabasco
- Tenochtitlán (former center of the Aztec Empire, now Mexico City)
- Tlaxcala
- Xalapa
- Yucatán
- Zacatecas, possibly
- and countless other cities throughout Mexico and northern Central America
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