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San Lazaro archaeological site
35.3650° N, -106.0370° E
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San Lazaro is an archaeological site of pueblos in the U.S. state of New Mexico. Located in the basin of the Galisteo River south of Santa Fe, it was home to a clan of the Tanoan peoples at the time of Spanish colonial contact in the 16th century. It was abandoned in the aftermath of the Spanish reconquest of the area after the 1680 Pueblo Revolt, its people believed to have eventually settled at First Mesa among the Hopi. The site was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1964.
Historical Timeline
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Chamuscado and Rodríguez Expedition
1581–1582
Spanish provincial establishment (Oñate)
late 1590s
Pueblo Revolt
1680
Eviction and resettlement by Diego de Vargas
1695
Excavation by Nels Nelsen
1910s
National Historic Landmark designation
1964
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