Cemanahuac

The Aztec people who came from Aztlán and settled in Tenochtitlan (today's Mexico City) called their land Cemanahuac, knowing their land was surrounded by the Pacific Ocean, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Caribbean Sea.

Tenochtitlan perfectly fit into this pyramidal paradigm, thus the association of the city to Cemanahuac.

[2] The city of Aztlán from which the Aztecs originated was also surrounded by water.

[3] Cemanahuac is a Nahuatl name derived from the words "cē" one/whole and "Ānāhuac", which in turn derives from the words "atl" (water) and "nahuac", a locative meaning "circumvented or surrounded".

The early Western literature on the Nahuatl culture and language agreed on the translation "world" for the term Cemanahuac.