GC3KANXMondo's NAT #156 Cochiti
Type: Traditional
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By: mondou2@
| Hide Date: 05/13/2012
| Status: Available
Country: United States
| State: Colorado Coordinates: N40° 22.501 W104° 49.920 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 0
Native American Tribes series.Cochiti
A Keresan tribe and its pueblo on the west bank of the Rio Grande River, is about 35 miles southwest of Santa Fe, New Mexico. Before the earliest Spanish explorations, their ancestors divided into two groups, one branch going southward, where they built the pueblo of Katishtya (later called San Felipe), while the other took refuge on the Potrero Viejo, a mesa in north central New Mexico, where they established a temporary pueblo known as Hanut Cochiti, about 12 miles northwest of the present-day Cochiti Pubelo. Later, this group moved again to 6 or 7 miles southeast of the present Cochiti Pubelo, where they were found by Spanish explorer Juan de Oņate in 1598. The Cochiti took an active part in the Pueblo Revolt of 1680, but remained in their pueblo for 15 months after the outbreak, when, learning of the return of Governor Otertnin to reconquer New Mexico, they retreated with the Keresan tribes of San Felipe and Santo Domingo (now called Kewa), re-enforced by some Tewa from San Marcos and by Tigua from Taos and Picuris, to the Potrero Viejo. In the fall of 1692, they were visited by Don Diego de Vargas, the re-conqueror of New Mexico, who induced them to promise to return to their permanent villages on the Rio Grande. But, only San Felipe proved sincere, while the Cochiti remained on the Potrero Viejore until early in the following year, when Vargas, with 70 soldiers, 20 colonists, and 100 warriors from the friendly villagers of San Felipe, Santa Ana, and Zia, assaulted the pueblo at midnight and forced the Cochiti to flee. However, the Cochiti returned, surprised the Spaniards, and succeeded in liberating most of the Indian captives. Vargas remained a short time, then burned the pueblo and evacuated the Potrero Viejore, taking with him to Santa Fe, a large quantity of corn, other booty, and nearly 200 captive women. Today, the Pueblo de Cochiti contains some 53,779 acres of reservation land and sustains about 1,200 pueblo members
07/05/2019 By LostinDenver Ahhh, Friday night. A good night for finding... geocaches. After work I drove way up north to the Johnstown/Kelim area to grab some more of the coCreation letterbox series. Along the way I grabbed whatever was in my path - like a hurricane hitting Limon, Colorado. Before beginning I stopped at Duluth to grab some more durable pants. Since I started geocaching I've noticed that normal jeans don't hold up. But I digress. During my journey I saw red tailed hawks, a handful of prairie dogs, a few mice, and only one snake - it was dead :( Just as dusk arrived I looked to the south and saw that I was in over my head. The thunderstorm, which my phone warned me was causing chaos at DIA, had formed a skirmish line to the south of me. I tried driving through it and found myself caught in the 4th hail storm of this season. Luckily, I still haven't repaired the damage :) I ended the night with one geocache in Denver and then Sonic with my geo-buddies, 2LabLovers. No problems here! I love reliable Mondou2 caches! TFTC!
06/09/2019 By FayColSalTom Thanks for the cache. Another quick park and grab
05/10/2019 By herndonrd Roadtrip to the Greeley/Johnstown/Windsor area for the letterbox powertrail, Wingin' it wherigos, What the Frack multis and anything else that caught our attention. Grabbed this one along the way. TFTC!
05/10/2019 By fearthefish Out and about caching with the lovable and cuddly herndonrd (affectionately known by me as Mr. Disneyland - the happiest person on Earth). We decided to spend the day north of Denver to grab lots of letterboxes, multis, Wherigos, and whatever else tickled our fancy.
We were now on the letterbox trail and taking turns hopping out of the car to make the find. We figured out rather quickly where we should look for each one, and found this one with ease. Once we had the cache in hand and did the sign and replace thing, we were off to find the rest of the hides we had on our list for the day. Thanks for the fun hide and for your contribution to a great day of caching.
P. S. No animals (including humans, aliens, or PayMeCache) were harmed in the writing of this log.
08/15/2018 By 2lablovers Today is my birthday and of course what did i want to do - CACHE ! We spent all day yesterday caching our way up to the NoCo event. We then stayed overnight and now are working on getting more of the letterbox series and other miscellaneous caches.
Mondo's NAT #156 Cochiti
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