Cachanillo, Arizona

Cachanillo, a derivative of Cachanilla in Spanish, being an arrowweed or Pluchea sericea (a rhizomatous evergreen shrub),[1][2][3] was one of the 19th century Pima Villages, located along the Gila River, in what is now the Gila River Indian Community in Pinal County, Arizona.[4]

Demographics
Historical population
CensusPop.Note%±
1860504—
U.S. Decennial Census[5]

Cachanillo appeared once on the 1860 U.S. Census in what was then Arizona County, New Mexico Territory. It reported a population of 504, all Pima people.[6] It was the 4th largest native community recorded in Arizona County, and 5th overall in size. Because census takers in 1860 and the specials prior to that failed to denote the precise location of the specific Pima villages on maps, it is unclear their exact locations today.[7]

References
  1. Eugene Sturla. "Pluchea sericea, Arrowweed, Southwest Desert Flora". southwestdesertflora.com. Retrieved October 12, 2019.
  2. "plants.usda.gov/core/profile?symbol=PLSE". plants.usda.gov. Retrieved October 12, 2019.
  3. The American Southwest. "Arrow Weed, Pluchea Sericea". americansouthwest.net. Retrieved October 12, 2019.
  4. Wilson, John P. (July 1999). "Peoples of the Middle Gila: A Documentary History of the Pimas and Maricopas, 1500s - 1945, Researched and Written for the Gila River Indian Community, Sacaton, Arizona" (PDF). www.griccrmp.com. Las Cruces, New Mexico. p. 166. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 July 2011. Retrieved 12 November 2019.
  5. "U.S. Decennial Census". Census.gov. Retrieved June 6, 2013.
  6. "Territory of New Mexico" (PDF). United States Census Bureau. 1860.
  7. Wilson, People of the Middle Gila, p.140

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