The people who met him that day, it is written, were hospitable and offered "Yuque Yunque" pueblo as guest quarters to Oñate and his party. On July 12, 1598, he baptized and renamed "Caypa" pueblo (present-day Ohkay Owingeh) "San Juan de los Caballeros", after his patron saint John the Baptist. San Juan de los Caballeros became the first capital of the New Spain colony of Santa Fe de Nuevo Méjico. In local history, it is said the event united the two fragmented families of Caypa and Yuque Yunque. Since their arrival from earlier homelands in the northwest, the two pueblos had been divided by the river, split until the expedition party's arrival. When the community offered Yuque Yunque pueblo on the west bank to Oñate, the two fragmented pueblos were made whole again at Caypa. The Spanish capital would be moved in 1610 to La Villa Real de la Santa Fe de San Francisco de Asís.