Ticuantepe is a town and a municipality in the Managua department of Nicaragua with an estimated population of 39,012. The municipality is likely named after the Nahua chiefdom of Tekwantepet which was located in the Managua department. According to Spanish conquistador and historian Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés, Tekwantepet was a small but militarily strong chiefdom that was one of the last to fall to the conquistadors and their central Mexican allies.