In the Aztec military, tlacateccatl (pronounced [t͡ɬaːkaˈteːkkat͡ɬ]) was a title roughly equivalent to general.
The tlacateccatl was in charge of the tlacatecco, a military quarter in the center of the Aztec capital, Tenochtitlan.
In wartime he was second-in-command to the tlatoani ("ruler", "king") and the tlacochcalcatl ("high general").
The tlacateccatl was always a member of the military order of the Cuachicqueh, "the shorn ones".