Antonio de Otermin
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Antonio de Otermin was the Spanish Governor of the northern New Spain province of Santa Fe de Nuevo México, today the U.S. states of New Mexico and Arizona, from 1678 to 1682. Otermin was governor during the Pueblo Revolt, during which the religious leader Popé led the Pueblo people in a military ouster of the Spanish colonists. Popé's forces besieged Santa Fe, surrounding the city and cutting off its water supply. Otermín, barricaded in the Palace of the Governors, called for a general retreat, and on September 21 the Spanish settlers streamed out of the capital city headed for Ciudad Juárez, then called El Paso del Norte. In 1682, he founded the mission of Corpus Christi de la Isleta near Ysleta, Texas with Fray Francisco de Ayeta.
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