 The region of southernmost Honduras known as Choluteca, along with Choluteca City, derive their names from this Nahuatl word.Choluteca was originally inhabited by Chorotega groups.Daniel Garrison Brinton argued that the name chorotega was a Nahuatl exonym meaning "people who fled" given after a defeat by Nahuan forces that split the Chorotega-Mangue people into two groups.