Pecos Pueblo

A Brief Overview

3 min readMay 15, 2022

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The most prominent feature of Pecos National Historical Park, east of Santa Fe, Pecos Pueblo lies in ruins, the remains of Mission Nuestra Señora de los Ángeles de Porciúncula, a Spanish mission church, perched on a nearby ridge. The site not only attests to Pecos Pueblo’s former eminence and its complex relations with Spanish invaders, but intimates the myriad reasons for its eventual downfall and abandonment…

Nathan Smith

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