Jumano Villages

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The Jumano stay in Puebloan-like villages with the Rio Grande to the north and south of them, which is known as El Paso, today. The houses they lived in are called “Pueblos” and that's why the villages are called Puebloan. They built their houses out of large adobe bricks, or dried-up mud that they turned into bricks. Explorer Espejo found one of the Jumanos village at the mouth of the Concho River in 1582 and he called it La Junta, it was a big abundance of several Jumano villages next to each other. The Spanish called the indians of La Junta, “Patarabuays.” The first person that actually saw the La Junta villages was actually a Spanish explorer with the name of “Cabeza De Vaca,” but he did not record what he had discovered, rookie

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