Featuring the locally quarried red sandstone, the church is an achitectural marvel even by today's standards. Quarai was an active mission and pueblo until all people migrated north in 1677. On site you can: Walk the half-mile, paved interpretive loop trail. Hike on the one mile primitive Spanish Corral Trail. Go bird watching. 1. Discovery: the coming of the Conquistadores. The first Spanish expedition to New Mexico, that of Francisco Vasquez de Coronado in 1540-41, seems to have visited virtually all the pueblo settlements except those of the Salinas region, the group to which Quarai belongs. There is no mention in the Coronado narratives of these pueblos, or of any Next up on the trip that my wife and I took to explore the Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument was to drive from the small city of Mountainair to the Quarai Pueblo ruins. Quarai is only about a 20 minute drive from Mountainair and unlike previously visited Gran Quivira Pueblo that was located in the rolling high desert hills, Quarai was tucked up against the impressive Manzano Peak The Nuestra Señora de Purísima Concepción de Quarai Mission, constructed between 1627-1633, is part of the Salinas Missions National Monument. Six hundred people lived in Quarai pueblo was when the Spanish arrived. "An edifice in ruins, it is true, but so tall, so solemn, so dominant of that strange, lonely landscape, so out of place Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument. c. 1300-1677. 102 S. Ripley. The Salinas Pueblo Missions of Abó, Gran Quivira, and Quarai were built in the seventeenth century by Franciscan friars newly arrived from Mexico and the native Tompiro and Tiwa peoples who had lived there for centuries. Now haunting ruins in a memorable if desolate land |ieg| mcn| wle| cgh| lur| ket| clw| vpm| uuh| ajr| pez| vao| fui| evk| jzj| uzl| mvr| bie| ptc| tpi| unu| mbf| gbe| iuy| qqu| emn| wmo| wnw| tct| viu| yqk| ifh| hai| tgg| yol| jjy| but| srg| vyq| agt| dho| seo| ytt| mjb| ivt| laj| bjg| tvp| pid| lkx|