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Ranchos de Taos is a census-designated place (CDP) in Taos County, New Mexico United States. The population was 2,390 at the time of the 2000 census . The historic district is the Ranchos de Taos Plaza , which includes the San Francisco de Asis Mission Church .
An anchor of the plaza is the Hotel La Fonda de Taos, [1] which has a small museum of D.H. Lawrence paintings [2] and a restaurant named Joseph's Table with hand-painted floral murals. [5] There is metered parking within the plaza and shopping includes galleries of Native American art and jewelry and souvenir shops.
Taos was the most northern stop on the El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, also known as the King's Highway, from Mexico City. [11] Mountain men who trapped for beaver nearby made Taos their home in the early 1800s. [6] In December 1826 Kit Carson arrived [12] and later married Josefa Jaramillo from Taos. [7]
Taos (/ t aʊ s /) 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 ...
The monument includes portions of the Taos Plateau volcanic field, cut by the gorges of the Rio Grande and the Rio San Antonio.Significant volcanic peaks include Cerro de la Olla, Cerro Chiflo, and Ute Mountain which, at 10,093 feet (3,076 m) ft, is the tallest peak entirely within the national monument.
La Morada de Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe, also known as Taos Morada, is a holy site and past home of La Fraternidad Piadosa de Nuestro Padre Jesús Nazareno in Taos, New Mexico. The Penitent Brothers, or the Hermanos Penitentes used the Morado for religious study of ancient Catholic lay religious practices. [2]
Martinez Hacienda, also known as Hacienda de los Martinez, is a Taos County, New Mexico hacienda built during the Spanish colonial era. It is now a living museum listed on the National Register of Historic Places .
Taos Pueblo (or Pueblo de Taos) is an ancient pueblo belonging to a Taos-speaking Native American tribe of Puebloan people. It lies about 1 mile (1.6 km) north of the modern city of Taos, New Mexico. The pueblos are one of the oldest continuously inhabited communities in the United States. [3]