Nochixtlán, Asunción
Atoco

noch-tli:  nopal cactus
-tlán:  place of, at
"Place of the Nopal Cactus"

a:  mouth, place
toco:  nopal cactus
"Place of the Nopal Cactus"

Raul Alavez, Toponimia Mixteca (México: Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, 1988) 36.

Mary Elizabeth Smith, Picture Writing in Ancient Southern Mexico: Mixtec Place Signs and Maps, Civilization of the American Indian Series 124 (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1973) 21.

Codex of Yanhuitlán, page 6.