Las Humanas, also known as Jumano Pueblo, was one of the
Tompiro Indians
The Tompiro Indians were Pueblo Indians living in New Mexico. They lived in several adobe villages east of the Rio Grande Valley in the Salinas region of New Mexico. Their settlements were abandoned and they were absorbed into other Pueblo Natio ...
Pueblos in the vicinity of the
Manzano Mountains
The Manzano Mountains are a small mountain range in the central part of the US State of New Mexico. They are oriented north–south and are 30 miles long. The center of the range lies due east of the town of Belen. The name "Manzano" is Spani ...
of
New Mexico
)
, population_demonym = New Mexican ( es, Neomexicano, Neomejicano, Nuevo Mexicano)
, seat = Santa Fe
, LargestCity = Albuquerque
, LargestMetro = Tiguex
, OfficialLang = None
, Languages = English, Spanish ( New Mexican), Navajo, Ker ...
. It was a center of the salt trade prior to the Spanish incursion into the region and traded heavily with the
Jumanos Jumanos were a tribe or several tribes, who inhabited a large area of western Texas, New Mexico, and northern Mexico, especially near the Junta de los Rios region with its large settled Indigenous population. They lived in the Big Bend area in th ...
of the area of modern
Presidio, Texas
Presidio is a city in Presidio County, Texas, United States. It is situated on the Rio Grande (''Río Bravo del Norte'') River, on the opposite side of the U.S.–Mexico border from Ojinaga, Chihuahua. The name originates from Spanish and means " ...
and other central Rio Grande areas. It may have also traded with Jumanos along the Pecos River and other places to the east and maybe even north.
At the time the Spanish came in the 1580s Las Humanas had a population of about 3,000. The area suffered from Spanish expropriation of resources and then from droughts in the 1660s. 450 residents died in 1668 and by the early 1670s the Pueblo was abandoned. He was killed.
Sources
*Anderson, Gary Clayton. ''The Indian Southwest, 1580–1830: Ethnogenesis and Reinvention''. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1999.
Former populated places in New Mexico
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