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Guiness Book World's Record holders on human
cannibalism, total victims and total systematic
devouring of whole tribes and peoples throughout
the Americas:

Jose Alfredo Jimenez "Colonel Jake" (U.S. Army Psy-Op)

http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/aztecs/sacrifice.htm

But the overwhelming majority of the sacrificed captives apparently
were consumed. A principal -- and sometimes only -- objective of
Aztec
war expeditions was to capture prisoners for sacrifice. While some
might be sacrificed and eaten on the field of battle, most were taken
to home communities or to the capital, where they were kept in wooden
cages to be fattened until sacrificed by the priests at the temple-
pyramids. Most of the sacrifices involved tearing out the heart,
offering it to the sun and, with some blood, also to the idols. The
corpse was then tumbled down the steps of the pyramid and carried off
to be butchered. The head went on the local skull rack, displayed in
central plazas alongside the temple-pyramids. At least three of the
limbs were the property of the captor if he had seized the prisoner
without assistance in battle. Later, at a feast given at the captor's
quarters, the central dish was a stew of tomatoes, peppers, and the
limbs of his victim. The remaining torso, in Tenochtitlán at least,
went to the royal zoo where it was used to feed carnivorous mammals,
birds, and snakes.


Recent archeological research leads support to conquistadores' and
informants' vivid and detailed accounts of Aztec cannibalism. Mexican
archeologists excavating at an Aztec sacrificial site in the
Tlatelolco section of Mexico City between 1960 and 1969 uncovered
headless human rib cages completely lacking the limb bones.
Associated with these remains were some razor-like obsidian
blades, which the archeologists believe were used in the butchering.
Nearby they also discovered piles of human skulls, which apparently
had been broken open to obtain the brains, possibly a choice
delicacy reserved for the priesthood, and to mount the skulls on a
ceremonial rack.


> http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/aztecs/sacrifice.htm

Recently, Borah, possibly the leading authority on the demography of
Mexico at the time of the conquest, has also revised the estimated
number of persons sacrificed in central Mexico in the fifteenth
century to 250,000 per year