Otompan (

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for "place of Otomis") or Otumba (the Spanish version of the name) was a

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'' altepetl'' or

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in the upper Teotihuacan Valley (now in

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). According to histories written in the colonial period (16th and 17th centuries), Otompan was created around 1395 when Techotlalatzin, ruler of Texcoco, settled Otomi

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s there who were fleeing the conquest of Xaltocan by the Tepanecs under Tezozomoc.

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