View of the Pecos Pueblo Mission in San Miguel County, New
Mexico. Photo taken in 1915 [?] by Jesse L. Nusbaum. Adobe
bricks are piled to the side. Cumulus and nimbus clouds fill the
sky. Courtesy of the Western History/Genealogy Department,
Denver Public Library. Cicuique (Pecos Pueblo)by Richard Flint
and Shirley Cushing Flint The ruins of the pueblo of Cicuique,
now known as Pecos Pueblo, are located on a small rock outcrop
eighteen miles southeast of Santa Fe in the Pecos River Valley.
The site was designated a New Mexico State Monument in 1935 and
subsequently transferred in 1965 to the National Park Service,
becoming a National Historical Park. Occupation of the upper
Pecos Valley to Anton Chico by the people of Cicuique spanned
slightly more than five centuries, AD1300s to the early 1800s.
Cicuique, the designation for the home of the most eastern of
the Puebloan people, first appeared in documents from the
Coronado expedition. The origin of the word itself remains
unclear. It may derive from the Tiwa