The location of the Tiguex War, area of 12 to 20 now vanished Pueblos in the vicinity of Albuquerque and Bernalillo, New Mexico in the Rio Grande valley, described by the Coronado expedition of 1540-1542 as where they were headquartered for 14 months.
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Southern Tiwa people, a pueblo people in central and northern New Mexico;
It was fought in the winter of 1540-41 by the expedition of Francisco Vásquez de Coronado against the twelve or thirteen pueblos of Tiwa Indians as well as other Puebloan tribes along both sides of the Rio Grande, north and south of present-day Bernalillo, New Mexico, in what was called the Tiguex Province.