Torrance

Cutting through the southern edge of the Manzano Mountains, this area has always been an important trade route.

Located adjacent to the major east-west trade route through Abó Pass, the Tompiro Pueblo of Abó (ca.

In 1819, the Spanish Government granted Bartolome Baca a tract of land that extended east from the eastern slopes of the Manzano...

Population – 830 Elevation – 6107 ft. Incorporated in 1909 and country seat of Torrance County since 1905, Estancia is located in an...

Population – 830 Elevation – 6107 ft. Incorporated in 1909 and country seat of Torrance County since 1905, Estancia is located in an...

The Tompiro Indian “Pueblo de las Humanas: (ca.

Josiah Gregg, merchant and pioneer historian of the Santa Fe Trail, made four expeditions to Santa Fe.

Chilili is named for an abandoned 16th century Indian pueblo located in this vicinity.

Elevation 6,110 feet.

(1910–2006) “Concha” was a rancher and the first female Majority Whip of a state legislature in the nation.

Population – 928; Elevation – 6535 Mountainair is home to the Salinas Pueblos National Monument visitor center and is the hub of Estancia...

On the edge of the Plains stands the abandoned Tiwa Pueblo Indian village of Quarai (ca.

The Tompiro Indian "Pueblo de las Humanas: (ca.

This unique regional complex of prehistoric Indian pueblos and associated 17th-century Franciscan mission ruins constitutes a “capsule in...

Salt Lakes: The Pedernal Hills form the eastern edge of Spanish New Mexico’s 17th-century “Salinas Jurisdiction.

The pueblo-mission of San Miguel de Tajique was established in the 1620’s. In the 1670’s, famine, disease and Apache raids caused the...