Ticuantepe

Ticuantepe is a town and a municipality in the Managua department of Nicaragua with an estimated population of 39,012. The municipality is likely named after the Nahua chiefdom of Tekwantepek which was located in the Managua department. According to Spanish conquistador and historian Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés, Tekwantepek was a militarily strong chiefdom that was one of the last to fall to the conquistadors and their central-Mexican allies. The chiefdom's name is a combination of the Nawat words tēkwani (jaguar), and tepek (hill), therefore the translation of Tekwantepek is "hill of jaguars" or "jaguar hill".