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March 2000

Bernalillo on the Camino Real; Population - 2,763, Elevation - 5,050

The Pueblo Indian province of Tiguex, in the area of Bernalillo, served as winter headquarters for Francisco Vásquez de Coronado in 1540-42 during his explorations of the southwest.  Bernalillo was founded after the Spanish reconquest of New Mexico by Diego de Vargas in 1692.  Vargas died here in 1704.

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