Tapanatepec
English
Alternative forms
- Tapanatepeque (obsolete)
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish Tapanatepec, from a Nahuan language. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
Proper noun
Tapanatepec
- A town in Oaxaca, Mexico
- Synonym: San Pedro Tapanatepec
- 1648, Thomas Gage, The English-American his Travail by Sea and Land: Or, a New Survey of the West-India’s, London: R. Cotes, page 89:
- Now from Ecatepeque wee could diſcover the high mountaines of Quelenes, which were ſubject of moſt of our diſcourſe to Sanatepeque, and from thence to Tapanatepeque.
- A municipality of Oaxaca, Mexico
- Synonym: San Pedro Tapanatepec