Achiutla, San Miguel
Yucu Nicaandi
Ñuu Ndecu

achio-tl:  achiote
-tlán:: place of, at
-tlah:  place where there is an abundance of something
"Place of Achiote"

yucu:  hill
ndicaandi:  sun
"Hill of the Sun"

ñuu:  place, town
ndecu:   flames
"Town of Flames"

John Pohl and Bruce Byland, “Mixtec Landscape Perception and Archaeological Settlement Patterns," Ancient Mesoamerica 1.1 (1990): 126.

Raul Alavez, Toponimia Mixteca (México: Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, 1988) 103.

Codex Selden, page 2.