El Hueso Parado de Pimas y Cocomaricopas, was first mentioned in an 1823 Mexican Army report, as being located 7 leagues (17.5 miles) down the Gila River from the Pima Villages. As its name implies it was home to both Pima and Maricopa. Hueso Parado village lay on the west and downstream of the other Pima villages and upstream of the other Maricopa villages. It lay north of Maricopa Wells, above the confluence of the Santa Cruz River with the Gila, on a neck of land between the two rivers. The 1859 survey of the village showed extensive irrigation canals on both the south bank of the Gila and the north bank of the Santa Cruz Rivers, with the village in between them. David H. DeJong, Stealing the Gila: The Pima Agricultural Economy and Water Deprivation, 1848–1921, University of Arizona Press, 2009, p.53 Map 3.2 Survey Map of the 1859 Pima Reservation. (Reproduced courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration: tube 406, Central Map Files A, entry 16); p.55 Map 3.3 The surveyed reservation and the Pima and Maricopa fields and villages, 1859
