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Bernalillo on the Camino Real

Bernalillo, NM, USA

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The Pueblo Indian province of Tiguex, the area of Bernalillo, served as winter headquarters for Francisco Vasquez de Coronado in 1540-42 during his explorations of the Southwest. Bernalillo was founded after the Spanish reconquest of New Mexico by Diego de Vargas in 1692. Vargas died here in 1704.

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