Paraje del Perrillo (Place of the Puppy), was a dependable watering and stopping place along the Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, where it passed through the Jornada del Muerto in the vicinity of Point of Rocks in Sierra County, New Mexico.
Oñate wrote they had traveled two days from the paraje, where they had just buried Pedro Robledo and were suffering from lack of water for themselves and their animals and were five or six leagues east of the Río Grande near the Point of Rocks.
Not far away in the direction of the river, Captain Gaspar Pérez de Villagrá and Cristóbal Sánchez each found a waterhole.
[1]: 151–152 From Paraje del Perillo the trail heads basically north through mesquite scrubland to another small intermittent watering place, La Cruz de Alemán, named for a fugitive German merchant who died of thirst there while attempting to cross the Jornada in the 1670s, at a time when it had no water.
Los Charcos del Perrillo were, long before the arrival of the Spanish, an important watering place for Apache in the Jornada region.