Teypana

Teypana was a Piro pueblo on the west bank of the Rio Grande near present-day Socorro, New Mexico. Its Tanoan-speaking inhabitants irrigated the valley and lived in multi-storey adobe towns.

In 1598 Juan de Oñate's hungry advance party received food and water there and named it Socorro, meaning aid. Disease and Apache raids depleted the Piro country in the 17th century. By the Pueblo Revolt of 1680 many survivors accompanied the retreating Spanish to El Paso del Norte, and Teypana was never reoccupied.