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Pilabó was a former Piro
pueblo In the Southwestern United States, Pueblo (capitalized) refers to the Native tribes of Puebloans having fixed-location communities with permanent buildings which also are called pueblos (lowercased). The Spanish explorers of northern New Spain ...
located on the site of the present city of Socorro, New Mexico, United States. In 1598, the vanguard of the Spanish colonizing caravan under Juan de Oñate acquired food at the Piro pueblo of Teypana. The
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named that pueblo “Socorro” which means “help” or “aid” in Spanish. Eventually, a different but nearby pueblo, Pilabó, would be given the name "Socorro" following the May/June 1626 founding of the mission of Nuestra Señora del Socorro. Some buried remains of Pilabó are still present south and southeast of the current church of San Miguel (established in the early 1800s on the ruins of the post-1626 church of Nuestra Señora which was destroyed in 1680/81) in Socorro. Bletzer, Michael P., A House for Fray Alonso: The Search for Pilabo Pueblo and the First Piro Mission, Nuestra Señora del Socorro. ''El Palacio'' 120(3): 34-37 (2015) / Marshall, Michael P. & Walt, Henry J., ''Rio Abajo: Prehistory and History of a Rio Grande Province'' (Santa Fe: New Mexico Historic Preservation Division, 1984), p 248.


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Colonial New Mexico Piro Pueblos of Socorro County, New Mexico Pueblos in New Mexico {{Socorro County, New Mexico