page_title: Northern Rio Grande National Heritage Area
section_title: Spanish colonial sites
hierarchical_section_title: Northern Rio Grande National Heritage Area / Sites / Spanish colonial sites
caption_attribution_description: Valle Grande in winter, with two forested lava domes in the foreground: South Mountain on the left, Cerro la Jara (roughly 75 m) on the right. Valle Grande is located in Valles Caldera National Preserve, New Mexico, USA.
context_page_description: Northern Rio Grande National Heritage Area is a federally designated National Heritage Area in the U.S. state of New Mexico. The national heritage area includes a section of the upper Rio Grande Valley that has been inhabited by the Puebloan peoples since the early Pre-Columbian era.
  Three counties, Santa Fe, Taos, and Rio Arriba are included in the designated National Heritage Area. The Northern Rio Grande National Heritage Area was authorized in 2006 by Public Law 109-338.
context_section_description: The heritage area also commemorates the influence of Hispanic colonists from the Viceroyalty of New Spain (colonial México), who arrived in the late 1590s and onwards.
  Spanish colonial sites in the National Heritage Area include:
  Historic center−core of Santa Fe
  Ranchos de Taos
  16 National Historic Landmarks
  270 other historic properties, including those on the National Register of Historic Places, of the pre-statehood era.
caption: Valles Caldera National Preserve.
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