Socorro, located on the Southern Pacific Railroad and State Highway 20 about ten
miles southeast of downtown El Paso, began in 1680, when Governor Antonio de Otermín
and Father Francisco de Ayeta led Spanish and Piro Indian refugees fleeing the New
Mexican Pueblo Indian Revolt to the El Paso area. In 1682 the Spanish established
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Spanish Lay Claim Over a Vast Land Inhabited for centuries by various Indian groups,
El Paso saw its first Europeans when Spaniards passed through in the mid-1500s.
During 1540 to 1542, an expedition under Francisco Vázquez de Coronado explored the
area now known as the American Southwest. These earliest Spanish explorers saw on
their approach […]
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