pueblo

Settlement of flat-roofed stone or adobe houses that are the communal dwelling houses of the Hopi, Zuni, and other American Indians of Arizona and New Mexico. The word has also come to refer to the pueblo-dwelling American Indians of the southwest themselves.

Typical pueblos are the Taos, San Ildefonso, and Zuni pueblos in New Mexico. Many pueblos produce distinctive wares such as inlaid silver jewellery, pottery, drums, carvings and weavings – the black-on-black pottery of San Ildefonso Pueblo is well-known.

Pueblo

US intelligence vessel captured by the North Koreans in January 1968, allegedly within their territorial waters. The crew, but not the ship, were released in December 1968. A naval court recommended no disciplinary action.

Pueblo

City in south-central Colorado, USA, at the junction of the Fountain and Arkansas rivers, 67 km/42 mi southeast of Colorado Springs, 160 km/100 south of Denver; population (2000) 102,100. Industries include steel production, coal-mining, food-processing, and the manufacture of aircraft components, computer-ware, and plastic. It is also a market centre for lumber, as well as livestock and other agricultural produce from the irrigated farmlands of the Arkansas Valley.

Sited at the confluence of various trails and waterways previously used by American Indians and fur traders, it grew as a farming town and distribution point. The Spanish were in the area from 1600. The city was laid out in 1860 on the site of Fort Pueblo, a trading post which was established in 1842 and abandoned in 1854. Rapid urbanization followed the arrival of the railroad in 1872, and the development of a steelworks in 1881, which used local coal, and iron ore from Utah and Wyoming. As one of the few smelting centres in the western USA, Pueblo attracted numerous steel-related industries.

Pueblo lost thousands of jobs in the mid-twentieth century as the US steel industry collapsed and the Pueblo Economic Development Corporation was established to diversify the economy. Steel is still made in Pueblo by the firm which started in the 1880s, CF and I, which was bought in 1993 by Oregon Steel. The plant produced 803,200 tonnes in 1996. Products include rail lines and seamless pipes.

The city is the seat of the University of Southern Colorado 1933. In the last week of August, it is the venue for the annual Colorado State Fair.