Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument - Quarai Ruins - Mountainair, New Mexico
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gparkes
N 34° 35.713 W 106° 17.848
13S E 381020 N 3828920
Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument, aside from its headquarters and museum in Mountainair, New Mexico, has three sets of ruins. Rangers are stationed here to aid in the interpretation of the ruins at the site.
Waymark Code: WMADP8
Location: New Mexico, United States
Date Posted: 01/01/2011
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Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument
Once, thriving American Indian trade communities of Tiwa and Tompiro speaking Puebloans inhabited this remote area of central New Mexico. Early in the 17th-century Spanish Franciscans visited the area and found it ripe for their missionary efforts. However by 1677 the entire Salinas District, was depopulated of both Indian and Spaniard alike.
* Quoted from the National Park Website.
Quarai Ruins
(505) 847-2290
On the edge of the Plains stands the abandoned Tiwa Pueblo Indian village of Quarai (ca. 1200-1670s), the southernmost of the Tiwa villages, located along the eastern flanks of the Manzano Mountains. The Spanish Franciscan mission church of La Purisima Concepcion (1630) is the most complete remaining example of the larger Salinas churches.
(Quoated from a state historical marker near site)