Pecos Pueblo

A Brief Overview

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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…