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Mexico preserved many native names for places and cities, like Querétaro or Tlalpan, in other cases they have a spanish name and a native name like Asunción Cuyotepeji for example, but seemingly this did not happen in other former Spanish colonies, why?

by /u/Frigorifico in /r/AskHistorians

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