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Otumba

Also known as Otumba de Gómez Farías

Otumba is a town in the State of Mexico, north-east of Mexico City, close to the ruins of Teotihuacan. Nearby obsidian sources were worked by the Teotihuacanos and later by the Aztecs, for whom Otumba was a craft centre. On the plain near the town Hernán Cortés defeated an Aztec army in July 1520, during the Spanish retreat from Tenochtitlan.

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The Epoch Institute. (2026). Otumba. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/otumba
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