Sisimbles

The Sisimbles were an Indigenous people of the desert country around the Bolsón de Mapimí. Colonial accounts associated them with the Chisos and Toboso, names used for several groups whose territories and alliances overlapped across northern Nueva Vizcaya. In the 1690s Spanish records described the Sisimbles among communities active during the continuing conflicts of the frontier. The dry basin, its scattered ranges and routes toward the Rio Grande formed the setting for these shifting alliances.