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Santa Fe was founded by 1610, 11 years after Spanish conquistador Don Juan de Oñate traveled from Compostela, Mexico, with 200 colonists, their wives and families, nine Franciscan priests, several hundred servants and thousands of head of stock.
The caravan had moved along the Rio Grande and stopped at Ohkay Owingeh, an Indian village near the confluence of the Rio Grande and the Rio Chama. The caravan ... MORE
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