Mesquite

The Mesquites were one of the groups named in colonial records of the Concho peoples of northern Mexico. They lived within a wider country of river valleys and dry basins, where Concho communities shared and contested territory with neighboring peoples. In 1684 a Concho leader named the Mesquites among the groups he had led, alongside the Julimes, Guiaquitas and others. Spanish missions and mines had by then reached many parts of this frontier.