West hanos

West of the Janos settlement, mountains and desert valleys extend toward the Chiricahua country. The Janos people lived in this northern frontier of Nueva Vizcaya, where Spanish missionaries established a parish and Suma families also came to reside. After uprisings in the 1680s, the Spaniards founded a presidio at Janos. A century later Chiricahua and Mimbreño Apache groups made peace there; by 1794 hundreds of Apache men, women and children were living near the fort and receiving provisions.