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- n. A Nahua community; a pueblo.
From Classical Nahuatl āltepētl, from ātl tepētl, literally “water (and) hill”. (Wiktionary)
Now calpulalli (from "calpulli," quarter or kinship, and "tlalli," soil), means soil of the kin, and altepetalli ( "altepetl," tribe), soil of the tribe.