Santa Fe Taos and Albuquerque 1993-1994 Frommers City Guides

ISBN: 9780133340952

出版年: 1993-1

定价: 30.00

内容简介

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1. GEOGRAPHY??? HISTOBY ~ ???i???sr
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Forget any preconceptions about the New Mexico \"desert.\" It ca~ be exp~
hot in the summer certainly; but t s co d in the winter and on pnng ex~
and fa nights. Santa Fe is at 7???000-feet e evation??? Taos at 6???950. into
Albuquerque is in the \"lowlands\" at 5 300 feet.
The most notable phys ca features of northern New Mexico m
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the Sangre de Cristo (Blood of Christ) Mountains and the Rio setxl???
Grande (Big River). The Sangre de Cristus??? with their summit at (\"~
13???161-foot Wheeler Peak irnt north of Taos??? are the southern rs il
extremity of the Rockies. The Rio Grande flows through a deep pta~l
north-south cut dividing the mountains from the mesa country to the by (
west. Albuquerque is on the R o Grande; both Santa Fe and Ta0sm ffo~
within 25 miles east on tributary streams. . 1
New Mexico is c ass fled as having a \"semiarid subtropical\" res???
climate. That means there s lots of sun??? prec p tation is light and Too!
relative humidity is low. But because of the elevation difference???
temperatures at Santa Fe and Tarn are often 10~F cooler than those at
Albuquerque. rcta
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HISTORY by t
The Pueblo tribes of the upper Rio Gmnde valley are believed to be SI~.t???i.
descendants of the Anasazi??? who lived from the 9th to the 13th
century in the Four Comers region where the states of New Mexico??? ~]cl
Arizona Colorado??? and Utah now meet The Anasazi built spectaco-
lar^stmctures; an idea of their scale and intricacy is hinted at by ruins
at tA~aco L.any.on and Mesa Verde. It isn t known for certain whythey ~???tl
an~doned their homes (some archaeologists suggest drought othen??? s~:1
social unrest)??? bat by the time the first Spanish arrived in the 1500s x
.mey were long gone??? and the Pueblo culture was well established MI
mroughout northem and western New Mexico.
A distinguishing and unifying mark of the otherwise dh e~ apgp
Ana~t.andPueblo cultures was architecture sty e. Both built
d~rnUOrmmum-style??? communities of stone and mud adobe bricks???
ee and four stones high. Focused around centra plazas??? villages
incorporated circular spiritual chambers called kivas These people
were primitive farmers who used the waters of the R o Grande and i~
tnbutaries to irrigate fields of corn??? beans??? and squash and creatco )t~
ehborate works of pottery.
THE SPANISH OCCUPATION The Spanish ventured into the at}]
upper Rio Gmnde after their conauest of Mexico s Azte~ tn
1519-21. In 1540 Franc sco V~squez de Coronado led an expedam
in search of the fabled Seven Cities of Cibola??? coincidental Y
introducing horses and sheep to the region Ne ther Coronado nor a
~u~ess~on of w~lth-~irsff conquistador3 could located the???lrg~???n~