San Pasqual Pueblo

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San Pascual Pueblo was a [[Piro Pueblo|Piro]] [[pueblo]] south and east of Soccoro, in [[Socorro County, New Mexico]]. Its ruins lie on the east bank of the [[Rio Grande]], on a [[butte]], on the western slope of the [[Little San Pascual Mountain]], overlooking the river, near the eastern boundary of the [[Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge]].

== History ==
The San Pasqual pueblo was the the largest Piro pueblo in the [[sixteenth century]], with a population estimated to be over 2,000. San Pascual was reported to have been in sight of [[Senecú]] another Piro pueblo on the west bank of the Rio Grande to the south near [[Mesa del Contadero]].<ref name=Torok>George D. Torok, From the Pass to the Pueblos, Sunstone Press, Santa Fe, Dec 1, 2011.</ref>

An earlier, smaller, more compact, but well fortified Piro pueblo, known as '''[[San Pasqualito]]''', dating from the [[fourteenth century]] lies nearby north of San Pasqual on a small summit at an elevation about 100 feet above the river valley.<ref name=Torok/>

==References==



[[Category:Native American tribes in New Mexico]]
[[Category:Piro Pueblos of Socorro County, New Mexico]]
[[Category:Pueblos in New Mexico]]

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