El Cuartelejo
El Cuartelejo | |
El Cuartelejo Ruins, Lake Scott State Park, Kansas | |
| Location | Western Kansas and eastern Colorado |
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| Coordinates | 38°40′41″N 100°54′51″W / 38.67806°N 100.91417°W |
| Built | Apache of the Dismal River culture occupation between 1450 and 1650; Pueblo people joined them between 1620 and 1680. |
| NRHP reference No. | 66000351 |
| Significant dates | |
| Added to NRHP | October 15, 1966 |
| Designated NHLD | July 19, 1964 |
El Cuartelejo is a region in eastern Colorado and western Kansas where Plains Apache lived with Pueblo people. The region was settled by Plains Apache, but after the 1680 Pueblo Revolt, Pueblo people, possibly Picuris, fled New Mexico north into Kansas by 1696, where they built a seven-room stone pueblo. Some people fled to the Arkansas River area of present-day Kiowa County, Colorado. Juan de Ulibarrí came to the Arkansas River area of Colorado in 1706 to capture and return Pueblo Native Americans who fled Nuevo Mexico in 1680.
In Kansas, an archeological district is the site of a Plains Apache and Pueblo village. It is the northernmost pueblo and the only known one in Kansas. Located in Lake Scott State Park, the remains of the stone and adobe pueblo are situated 13 miles north of Scott City, Kansas, in Ladder Creek Canyon.
On July 19, 1964, El Cuartelejo Archaeologist District (14SC1) was designated a National Historic Landmark. Of the 26 archaeological sites, most are from Apache of the Dismal River culture of precontact and post-contact periods from about 1450 until the mid-18th century. This group of Apache is called the Cuartelejo band.