Julime

At La Junta, the Río Conchos joins the Rio Grande amid a fertile stretch of the desert. Indigenous farming villages stood along both rivers, and the Julimes were among the peoples recorded in the region. In 1683 Jumano leader Juan Sabeata travelled to El Paso to request missionaries. Spanish friars soon came to La Junta, but their stay was troubled, and the peoples of the river settlements repeatedly resisted outside control.