Spanish explorers found several Tano-speaking pueblos in the Galisteo Basin in 1540. They were among the leaders of the Pueblo Revold in 1680. 150 Tano families were eventually resettled in Galisteo Pueblo in 1706. Droughts, famine, Comanche raids…
Galisteo Basin. The extensive lowland south of here is called Galisteo basin, a sag in the earth's crust where rock layers are depressed and thickened. It is one of the northernmost basins in the Basin and Range province in New Mexico and is borde…