Pecos Pueblo
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Pecos National Historical Park
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Pecos Pueblo Mission Church
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| Location | NM 63 SW of jct. with NM 50, Pecos, New Mexico |
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| Coordinates | 35°33′00″N 105°41′4″W / 35.55000°N 105.68444°WCoordinates: 35°33′00″N 105°41′4″W / 35.55000°N 105.68444°W |
| Area | 6,671.4 acres (2,699.8 ha) |
| Built | 0800 |
| Visitation | 43,873 (2011) |
| Website | Pecos National Historical Park |
| NRHP Reference # |
66000485 (original) 91000822 (increase) |
| NMSRCP # | 74 |
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| Added to NRHP | October 15, 1966 |
| Boundary increase | July 2, 1991 |
| Designated NHL | October 9, 1960 |
| Designated NMON | June 28, 1965 |
| Designated NHP | July 2, 1991 |
| Designated NMSRCP | May 21, 1971 |
Pecos National Historical Park is a National Historical Park in the U.S. state of New Mexico. It is located about 17 miles (27 km) east of Santa Fe, New Mexico. The site was originally designated Pecos National Monument on June 28, 1965. In 1990 new lands were added to the park and the official designation was changed to Pecos National Historical Park. It includes the Pecos Pueblo, a National Historic Landmark.
Pecos National Historical Park is composed of several noncontiguous units. The main unit of the park preserves the ruins of Pecos (Ciquique) Pueblo. The first Pecos pueblo was one of two dozen rock-and-mud villages built in the valley around AD 1100 in the prehistoric Pueblo II Era. Within 350 years the Pueblo IV Era Pecos village had grown to house more than 2,000 people in its five-storied complex. The main unit also protects the remains of Mission Nuestra Señora de los Ángeles de Porciúncula de los Pecos, a Spanish mission near the pueblo built in the early 17th century. A 1.25-mile (2 km) self-guiding trail begins at the nearby visitor center and winds through the ruins of Pecos Pueblo and the mission church. The Pecos Pueblo (Ciquique) was declared a National Historic Landmark on October 9, 1960.
In 1960, the National Park Service's statement of significance read:
This sizeable Pueblo community on the edge of the Plains was occupied for over 400 years. It was important in the history of the Spanish arrival in New Mexico, and the Spanish built and occupied a mission at the site for about 200 of those years. The site was abandoned in the 19th century by its last Pueblo residents.
Pecos (Ciquique) was visited by expeditionaries with Francisco Vásquez de Coronado in 1540. The Spanish mission church, Mission Nuestra Señora de los Ángeles de Porciúncula de los Pecos, was built there in 1619. A traditional kiva was built in front of the church during the Pueblo Revolt in 1680 as a rejection of the Christian religion brought by Spanish colonists. However, when the Spanish returned in 1692, the Pecos community stayed on friendly terms with them. The site was abandoned in 1838, after the Pecos population suffered from marauding Comanches. The surviving remnant of the Pecos population moved to the Jemez Pueblo.
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