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Taos [a] is a town in Taos County in the north-central region of New Mexico in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. Initially founded in 1615, it was intermittently occupied until its formal establishment in 1795 by Nuevo México Governor Fernando Chacón to act as fortified plaza and trading outpost for the neighboring Native American Taos Pueblo (the town's namesake) and Hispano communities ...
List of municipalities[edit] Largest municipalities in New Mexico by population. Skyline of Albuquerque, largest municipality in New Mexico. Las Cruces, second largest municipality in New Mexico. Aerial view of suburban Rio Rancho, New Mexico's third largest municipality. Santa Fe, capital and fourth largest municipality of New Mexico.
Taos Downtown Historic District. / 36.40667°N 105.57306°W / 36.40667; -105.57306. An 1883 photograph of the Taos Plaza taken from the southeast corner. [2] Taos Downtown Historic District is a historic district in Taos, New Mexico. [3] Taos "played a major role in the development of New Mexico, under Spanish, Mexican, and American ...
Taos County is a county in the U.S. state of New Mexico. As of the 2020 census, the population was 34,489. [1] Its county seat is Taos. [2] The county was formed in 1852 as one of the original nine counties in New Mexico Territory. [3] Taos County comprises the Taos, New Mexico Micropolitan Statistical Area .
Rio Arriba County ( Spanish: Condado de Río Arriba) is a county in the U.S. state of New Mexico. As of the 2020 census, the population was 40,363. [1] Its county seat is Tierra Amarilla. [2] Its northern border is the Colorado state line.
The Kit Carson House is a historic house museum at 113 Kit Carson Road in central Taos, New Mexico. Built in 1825, it was from 1843 until his death the home of frontiersman Kit Carson (1809-1868).
Located just north of the Taos Plaza [3] at 117 Bent Street, the Governor Bent House is a private museum open to the public. [2] Inside the museum are memorabilia and artifacts of the uprising. Within the house is the hole in the wall that allowed family members to escape. [5] The museum also has works of local artists.
Entrances to the center of the plaza were limited. It is believed that La Loma was settled between 1795 when most Spanish settlers left the protection of the fortified Taos Pueblo to settle in land that is now the town of Taos and before 1846 when New Mexico became a United States provisional government and fortified settlements were less ...