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.