Pueblo of Zía

The panel's sacking was a massacre. On August 1, 1689, Governor Domingo Jironza Petriz de Cruzate, marching north from El Paso to retake the province, attacked the pueblo its people call Tsiya. By the Spanish count some six hundred people died, many of them burned in the houses rather than surrender, and about seventy were carried south as slaves. A wounded Zia fighter, Bartolomé de Ojeda, was questioned at El Paso and rode with Diego de Vargas in 1692. Zia held to its new allegiance, which set it against Jemez and Cochiti through the 1690s.

What the plaque says

Official Scenic Historic Marker Pueblo of Zía In 1583 Antonio de Espejo re- corded this pueblo as one of five in the Province of Punamé. Fol- lowing the sacking of Zía by Span- ish troops in 1689, the pueblo was reestablished, but never attained its former size. The Zía ancient sun symbol is incorporated in the design of the state flag of New Mexico.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Jemez Historic Site — 20 mi
  The stone walls of a 1620s mission church standing among the ruins of Gisewa, a Jemez village named for the hot springs beside it.
• Petroglyph National Monument — 25 mi
  Some 24,000 images pecked into the dark basalt of Albuquerque's West Mesa, protected in 1990 and then crossed by a city boulevard.
• Bandelier National Monument — 32 mi
  Rooms carved into soft volcanic tuff in Frijoles Canyon, named for a Swiss scholar who was led there in 1880 by a man from Cochiti Pueblo.

More markers nearby

• Trinidad Gachupin Medina (ca. 1883-1964) — steps away
• Vásquez de Coronado's Route — 2.5 mi
• Colorado Plateau — 6.0 mi
• Pueblo of Santa Ana — 7.4 mi