Senecú, Chihuahua
Senecú (Senecú del Sur, San Antonio de Senecú) is a small Mexican village, now on the outskirts of Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua. It is at an altitude of 1,123 m. and lies within the Chihuahuan Desert ecosystem.
Senecú del Sur was founded in 1682
As of 1901, Senecú still had "a tribal organization, with a cacique (who is also custodian of the church), a governor, a war-chief, and subordinate officials."[6] The old church identified in 1901[6] is gone, replaced by a modern church.[1] The 1910 Mexican Revolution caused some members of the community to flee across the border to Ysleta and Socorro del Sur.[7]
The Pueblo is commemorated by a stone monument[3] on Alameda Street, in El Paso, about 1½ miles west of the Ysleta Mission.
Notes
- ^ ISBN 1-884925-58-8
- OCLC 11553460
- ^ a b c d "San Antonio de Senecú" The Handbook of Texas Online, accessed 21 February 2009
- ISBN 1-55622-507-5
- ISBN 1-55622-507-5
- ^ a b Fewkes, J. Walter (1902) "The Pueblo Settlements near El Paso, Texas" American Anthropologist New Series, 4(1): pp. 57-75, p. 73; full text, accessed 21 February 2009
- ISBN 0-8032-3226-8