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Quarai visitors, Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument, 1935.

From NPS archives. The Quarai unit of Salinas Pueblo Missions NM is the smallest of the three units at about 90 acres. Pueblo mounds at the site suggest that prior to Spanish contact Quarai was a very large pueblo. There was a year-round water source flowing from springs along Zapato Creek and, just like Gran Quivira, this thriving city is what the Spanish found when explorers arrived in 1598. Like the other missions of Salinas Pueblo Missions, a combination of disease, drought, famine and Apache raiding led to its abandonment in 1678.

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Organization: Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument
Address: PO Box 517, Mountainair, NM 87036-0517

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