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Coronado Historic Site preserves Kuaua Pueblo, a Tiwa settlement on the west bank of the Rio Grande in New Mexico that was occupied from about 1325 until the late 16th century. Though publicly named for Francisco Vásquez de Coronado, the site’s deeper significance lies in the Tiwa community that lived here and in the disruption caused by Coronado’s 1540–1542 expedition and the Tiguex War, after which the village was likely abandoned. Excavations from 1934 to 1939 revealed the pueblo’s long growth, six kivas, and exceptional pre-contact murals from before 1541, among the finest surviving Native American artworks in North America.
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Bernalillo, New Mexico · United States
