page_title: Aztlán
hierarchical_section_title: Aztlán
caption_attribution_description: English: Chicomoztoc — the place of the seven caves. The mythical origin of the "nahuatlaca" tribes. From the "Historia Tolteca chicimeca". A postcortesian codex from 1550, written by the people of Cuauhtinchan (of Chichimeca ancestry) to sustain their right to their lands, under the Spanish Colonial authorities. They wrote their history from A.D. 116 through 1544, using a mixture of European and prehispanic styles.
context_page_description: Aztlán is the ancestral home of the Aztec peoples. Aztecah is the Nahuatl word for "people from Aztlan". Aztlan is mentioned in several ethnohistorical sources dating from the colonial period, and each of them give different lists of the different tribal groups who participated in the migration from Aztlan to central Mexico, but the Mexica who went on to found Mexico-Tenochtitlan are mentioned in all of the accounts. Historians have speculated about the possible location of Aztlan and tend to place it either in northwestern Mexico or the southwest US, although there are doubts about whether the place is purely mythical or represents a historical reality.
context_section_description: Aztlán (from Nahuatl languages: Aztlān, [ˈast͡ɬaːn] (listen)) is the  ancestral home of the Aztec peoples. Aztecah is the Nahuatl word for "people from Aztlan". Aztlan is mentioned in several ethnohistorical sources dating from the colonial period, and each of them give different lists of the different tribal groups who participated in the migration from Aztlan to central Mexico, but the Mexica who went on to found Mexico-Tenochtitlan are mentioned in all of the accounts. Historians have speculated about the possible location of Aztlan and tend to place it either in northwestern Mexico or the southwest US, although there are doubts about whether the place is purely mythical or represents a historical reality.
caption: The seven caves of Chicomoztoc, from Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca
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