Cholula

American  

[chaw-loo-lah] / tʃɔˈlu lɑ /

noun

1. a town in S Mexico, SE of Mexico City: ancient Aztec ruins.

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Cholula British  

/ tʃoˈlula /

noun

1. a town in S Mexico, in Puebla state: ancient ruins, notably a pyramid, 53 m (177 ft) high. Pop: 82 964 (2005)

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Example Sentences

McCormick upped its hot sauce bona fides with a $800 million deal for Cholula in 2020.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

It’s behind Mexican hot sauce Cholula and condiments brand French’s.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 20, 2026

The Quil family, butchers from generation to generation, left San Pedro Cholula, Puebla, about 79 miles away, on Dec. 9 and said they walked for 24 hours.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 15, 2023

She situated it in what she described as a long tradition of mask-wearing in Mexico, which extended to pre-Hispanic times and included an ancient stone head found at the Great Pyramid of Cholula.

From Washington Post • Jul. 20, 2022

The six intervening leagues were soon crossed, and he entered Cholula with his Spanish army, attended by no other Indians than those who accompanied him from Cempoalla.

From Mexico, Aztec, Spanish and Republican Vol. 1 of 2 A Historical, Geographical, Political, Statistical and Social Account of That Country From the Period of the Invasion by the Spaniards to the Present Time; With a View of the Ancient Aztec Empire and Civilization; A Historical Sketch of the Late War; And Notices of New Mexico and California by Mayer, Brantz