PACQUATE-PAGUATE

NAME: Pacquate-Paguate COUNTY: 1 ROADS: 2WD GRID: 1 CLIMATE: Summers are ideal. Winters can creep up your trouser leg. BEST TIME TO VISIT: Any time.

COMMENTS: Pacquate. Post office 1922/1927.Paguate. Trading point 8 mi n of laguna. Both paraje and paguate grew out of summer indian settlements of the laguna indians, which were temporary locations prior to 1870, but which have now become permanent settlements. Named for antonion paguat, one of the four mexicans from whom the lagunas purchased the land subsequently known as paguate grant. The name paguat or paguate appears in late eighteenth-centruy records of local parishes. REMAINS: The village stands

Paguate creek. Flows s to join the rio san jose, 3 mi e of laguna.Paguate grant. Extends approximately 24 mi e to w, 6 mi n to s, with paguate at the center.Paguate mesa. Site of cebolleta village. Post office 1905/1908. Mail to laguna. Submitted by: Samuel W McWhorter

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