Crossword-Solution: BERNALILLO 10 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 12

His letter of October 20, 1541, although written near the site of the present Bernalillo, New Mexico, contains very little in regard to the Rio Grande Pueblos.

The brief report of the eight companions of Francisco Sanchez Chamuscado who in 1580 accompanied the Franciscan missionaries as far as Bernalillo, the site of which was then occupied by Tigua villages, and who went thence as far as Zuñi, is important, although it presents merely the sketch of a rather hasty reconnoissance.

Bernalillo 23,606 | Luna 3,913 | Sandoval 8,579 Chaves 16,850 | | Santa Fe 14,770 Colfax 16,460 | McKinley 12,963 | Curry 11,443 | Mora 12,611 | Sierra 3,536 Dona Ana 12,893 | Otero 7,069 | Socorro 14,761 | Quay 14,912 | Taos 12,008 Eddy 12,400 | Rio Arriba 16,719 | Torrance 10,119 Grant 14,813 | | Union 11,404 Guadalupe 10,927 | Roosevelt 12,064 | Lincoln 7,822 | San Juan 8,504 | Valencia 13,320 | San Miguel 22,930 | TOTAL 327,396 NEW YORK.--Area, 49,204 square miles.

The "Rio Tiguex" of Castañeda is the Rio Grande del Norte, and the Indians of Tiguex belonged to the stock of the "Tanos" language, now spoken still by a few Indians at Galisteo, and by the inhabitants of the pueblos of Sandia and Isleta.[57] Even the direction in which the Spaniards moved from Acoma--that is, to the north-east--perfectly agrees with that in which Bernalillo lies, whereas the mouth of the Rio Puerco, below which General Simpson locates Tiguex, lies south-east of the pueblo of Acoma.

Along the Rio Grande it is almost at equal distances from Taos at the north, and Socorro at the south, whereas it is little further (in an east-westerly line) from Bernalillo to Zuñi, than from Bernalillo to the plains.