Sandoval

Soon after the Spanish colonized New Mexico in 1598, a series of estancias, or farming and ranching communities, flanked the Camino Real...

Population 8,320 — Elevation: 5,050.

Elevation 7379 feet Rainfall divides at this point.

Cuba was named Nacimiento when a nearby settlement of 35 Spanish families was recognized by Governor Pedro Fermín de Mendinueta in a 1769...

Teacher, agriculturalist, farmer and conservationist, Dulcelina Curtis led efforts to control flooding of arroyos in Corrales where a...

This church was constructed in 1868 following a flood which demolished an earlier building.

The village of Giusewa was occupied by ancestors of the Jemez Indians before the arrival of the Spanish in 1541.

The village of Giusewa was occupied by ancestors of the Jémez Indians before the arrival of the Spanish in 1541.

In 1846, U.S. forces under Brigadier General Stephen Watts Kearny invaded New Mexico and, on August 18, raised the U.S. flag in Santa Fe.

Near here the Rio Grande Valley narrows.

Humans have lived in the Sandia Mountains for thousands of years.

Jémez is the sole surviving pueblo of the seven in the “provincia de los Hemes” noted by Spaniards in 1541, and the last at which the...

San Felipe, named for St. Philip the Apostle by Spanish explorer Francisco Sánchez Chamuscado in 1581, was abandoned during the Pueblo...

The Keres speaking Pueblo of Santa Ana, known as Tamaya, first submitted to Spanish rule in the 1540s and later in 1693 re-established...

The Keresan people of Santo Domingo have occupied the area of the Rio Grande Valley since prehistoric times despite several floods that...

In 1583 Antonio de Espejo recorded this pueblo as one of five in the Province of Punamé.

On August 10, 1680 the Pueblo Indians rose in revolt against Spanish rule.

Among the many cultural sites located nearby is a camp where Franciso Vázquez de Coronado’s troops spent part of the winter of 1540-41...

SIDE ONE: New Mexico has a proud history of military service.