Guiaquitas

The Guiaquitas were one of the Indigenous groups associated with the Concho peoples of northern Mexico. Their name appears in colonial accounts alongside those of the Baopapas, Julimes and other communities of the Río Conchos region. In testimony recorded in 1684, a Concho leader named the Guiaquitas among the groups he had led. Their country lay within a wider frontier of rivers, mountains and desert basins where Spanish missions and mines expanded during the seventeenth century.