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Codex Chimalpopoca
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<p> <i>Codex Chimalpopoca</i> or <i>Códice Chimalpopoca</i> is a <a href="/facts/Spanish_conquest_of_the_Aztec_Empire/vrxSx0Sz">postconquest</a> cartographic <a href="/facts/Aztec_codices/6efB2shf">Aztec codex</a> which is officially listed as being in the collection of the <a href="/facts/Instituto_Nacional_de_Antropolog%25C3%25ADa_e_Historia/olLGWqAM">Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia</a> located in Mexico City under "Collección Antiguo no. 159". It is best known for its stories of the hero-god <a href="/facts/Quetzalcoatl/CQq5P6rS">Quetzalcoatl</a>. The current whereabouts of the codex are unknown. It appears to have disappeared in the mid-twentieth century, so that study of the codex can be done only through copies and photographs. The codex consists of three parts, two of which are more important, one that regards the pre-Hispanic history of Central Mexico, the <i>Anales de Cuauhtitlan</i> and the other that regards the study of Aztec cosmology, the <i>Leyenda de los Soles</i>. </p>