Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument

 From Colorado Springs we traveled south to Santa Fe to visit some family for a few days before moving on to Mountainair New Mexico, about 70 miles south of Albuquerque, to go to Salinas Pueblo MissionsNM. There are three sites to see plus a main visitor center in Mountainair. Each site was originally the home to Puebloan Peoples for centuries and then taken over by the Spanish, so there is a combination of Puebloan and Spanish ruins. There are visitor centers and interpretive signs at each site which tell the story, excuse my bluntness, of how the Spanish and Franciscans ruined the lives of the people that lived there for thousands of years.

Quarai Ruins

Gran Quivira Ruins

Abo Ruins