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Isleta Amphitheater is an outdoor amphitheater, located in Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States. The amphitheater opened in February 2000 as the Mesa del Sol Amphitheater . This was a part of Mesa del Sol , a planned community, currently under development in Albuquerque. [ 1 ]
Pueblo of Isleta is located in the Middle Rio Grande Valley, 13 miles (21 km) south of Albuquerque. It is adjacent to and east of the main section of Laguna Pueblo. The pueblo was built on a knife-shaped lava flow running across an ancient Rio Grande channel. [5] The Isleta Pueblo Historic District is listed on the National Register of Historic ...
The San Agustin de la Isleta Mission was founded on the older pueblo, on the west bank of the Rio Grande about 13 miles (21 km) south of Albuquerque. The original Isleta (i.e. islet) was so named by the Spaniards from its position on a tongue of land projecting into the stream; the native name, Shiewhibak, seems to refer to a knife used in ...
As of 2022, E. Michael Silvas is the governor of Ysleta del Sur Pueblo. [1] The 2021 Tribal Council consists of Sheriff Bernardo Gonzales, Councilman Rudy Cruz Jr., Councilman Rafael Gomez Jr., Governor E. Michael Silvas, Cacique Jose Sierra Sr., Lt. Governor Adam Torres, War Captain Javier Loera, Councilman Raul Candelaria, and Councilman Andrew Torrez.
In 1990 members of the community began efforts to restore and preserve the Ysleta and Socorro missions as well as the Presidio Chapel of San Elizario, Texas.That same year the City and County governments of El Paso formed the Office of Heritage Tourism and received technical support for the project from the National Trust for Historic Preservation in the form of a grant.
Isleta Village Proper or Isleta [2] is a census-designated place (CDP) in Bernalillo County, New Mexico, United States. The population was 491 at the 2010 census . [ 4 ] It is part of the Albuquerque Metropolitan Statistical Area .
Isleta Pueblo is a station on the New Mexico Rail Runner Express commuter rail line, located in Isleta Pueblo, New Mexico, half a mile west of NM Highway 47 just off of Tribal Road 15. The station opened to service on December 17, 2008. A shuttle connects this station to the nearby Isleta Casino. The station has free parking, with 75 spaces.
Born into a native family of Isleta Pueblo, Abeita grew up speaking Tiwa and English. He was educated in the Jesuit School at Old Albuquerque, then at St Michael's College in Santa Fe. After ten years of formal education, he worked first as a typesetter at the Albuquerque newspaper. He next worked at a family business in Isleta.