Bernalillo
On the Camino Real
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.
Marker is on U.S. 550 at milepost 4.2, 0.2 miles east of Santa Fe Hills Boulevard, on the right when traveling east.
Courtesy hmdb.org
