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Pueblo Bonito (Spanish for beautiful town) is the largest and best-known great house in Chaco Culture National Historical Park, northern New Mexico.It was built by the Ancestral Puebloans who occupied the structure between AD 828 and 1126.
The Programa Pueblos Mágicos (Spanish: [pweβloˈmaxiko] ⓘ; "Magical Towns Programme") is an initiative led by Mexico's Secretariat of Tourism, with support from other federal agencies, to promote a series of towns around the country that offer visitors "cultural richness, historical relevance, cuisine, art crafts, and great hospitality". It ...
The Puye Cliff Dwellings are the ruins of an abandoned pueblo, located in Santa Clara Canyon on Santa Clara Pueblo Reservation land near Española, New Mexico.Established in the late 1200s or early 1300s and abandoned by about 1600, this is among the largest of the prehistoric Indian settlements on the Pajarito Plateau, showing a variety of architectural forms and building techniques.
An active pueblo that is home of one of the 21 federally recognized Pueblos. San Rafael de los Gentiles: Ruins Santiago Tiwa Bernalillo Village Excavated in the 1930s and now the site of modern homes. One of the 12 pueblos of Tiwa Indians along both sides of the Rio Grande, north and south of present-day Bernalillo; see Tiguex War. Senecú: Tiwa
Pueblo Culhuacán (modern Nahuatl pronunciation ⓘ) is an officially designated neighborhood of the Iztapalapa borough of Mexico City, which used to be a major pre-Hispanic city. Ancient Culhuacán was founded around 600 CE and the site has been continuously occupied since.
Candelaria Pueblo, also known as Las Ventanas, is a Chacoan-style site located within the El Malpais National Monument. The site consists of a two-story great house with approximately 75-90 rooms. Built circa 1050-1100 A.D., the pueblo served as a house of worship and was surrounded by a community of smaller pueblos.
House lots and sowing lands were to be distributed among pueblo settlers." [1] Among the leadership of a pueblo was an alcalde (preceded in the history of Spanish administration by the title corregidor). Spanish colonial pueblos in North America included: [2] Villa of Santa Cruz de la Cañada, now Santa Cruz, New Mexico [3]
The pueblo site is located 12 miles (19 km) southwest of Zuni Pueblo, on the Zuni Indian Reservation in Cibola County, New Mexico. In 1960 the site was designated as a National Historic Landmark known as the Hawikuh Ruins .