North Central New Mexico Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
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About North Central New Mexico
The term "North Central New Mexico" broadly applies to the region bounded on the: Humans have been present in the region for well over a thousand years, as evidenced by the presence of the remnants of Ancestral Puebloan settlements scattered throughout the Jemez Mountains and its foothills, the most famed of which are the cliff dwellings of Bandelier National Monument. The inhabitants of these settlements are generally believed to be the ancestors of today'sPueblo Indians, who primarily settled along the Rio Grande and its tributaries in New Mexico, where many of them still live to this day. The first Europeans to arrive in the region were theSpanish, with the first European settlement west of the Mississippi established near present-day Española in 1598, shortly prior to the construction
North Central New Mexico Travel Guide Sections
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