Quarai

Infobox_nrhp | name =Quarai
nrhp_type = nhld


caption = Quarai Ruins in Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument
nearest_city= Punta de Agua, New Mexico
lat_degrees = 34
lat_minutes = 35
lat_seconds = 45
lat_direction = N
long_degrees = 106
long_minutes = 17
long_seconds = 42
long_direction = W
locmapin = New Mexico
area =
built =1200
architect=
architecture=
designated= June 13, 1962cite web|url=http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=355&ResourceType=District
title=Quarai |accessdate=2008-06-26|work=National Historic Landmark summary listing|publisher=National Park Service]
added = October 15, 1966cite web|url=http://www.nr.nps.gov/|title=National Register Information System|date=2008-04-15|work=National Register of Historic Places|publisher=National Park Service]
governing_body = State
refnum=66000498The Quarai were a Tiguex Puebloan band of American Indians that originated in present-day New Mexico. Because of Apache hostilities they fled to El Paso in around 1675; later they moved to Isleta del Sur on the Rio Grande.

Quarai, also known as Quarai State Monument, is also the name of an historic site that was designated a U.S. National Historic Landmark District. It was declared a National Historic Landmark District in 1962.citation|title=PDFlink| [http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NHLS/Text/66000498.pdf National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination: Quarai / Quarai State Monument] |32 KB|date=April 28, 1976 |author=Francine Weiss |publisher=National Park Service and PDFlink| [http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NHLS/Photos/66000498.pdf "Accompanying 13 photos, from 1937, 1939, 1943, 1955, and undated"] |32 KB] It includes 13 structures including a pueblo and a mission. It is included in Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument.

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* [http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/QQ/bmq4.html Handbook of Texas entry]