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Coatzacoalcos

/koatθakoˈalkos/

proper noun/koatθakoˈalkos/

Coatzacoalcos (a major port city in the state of Veracruz, Mexico); Coatzacoalcos (a municipality of Verazcruz, Mexico); Coatzacoalcos (a large river which flows through the city of Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz, and into the Gulf of Mexico)

From Classical Nahuatl cōātl (“snake”) + tzacualli (“enclosure, something covered”) + -co (“a locative suffix”).

Coatzacoalcos — Spanish Dictionary | Passage