The Geography of Middle Rio Grande Pueblos Revealed by Spanish Explorers, 1540-1598
| Type | Title | Author | Additional Authors | Year | Publisher | Copyright | ISBN | URL |
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| Article | The Geography of Middle Rio Grande Pueblos Revealed by Spanish Explorers, 1540-1598 | Elinore M. Barrett | 1997 | University Press of Colorado | 978-1-60732-124-8 | URL |
When Spanish explorers arrived in the American Southwest in the sixteenth century, the greatest concentration of settled farming villages was in the Rio Grande Region. Some ninety-three pueblos were located in an area that stretched south from Taos Pueblo 215 miles along the Rio Grande rift valley, in addition to outlying areas to the east and west. Within the Rio Grande Region the general settlement pattern in the 1540–1598 contact period consisted of loose groupings of linguistically related pueblos that occupied specific drainage areas.Description: