Cañones is a census-designated place in Rio Arriba County, New Mexico, United States.

The origins of the community trace back to 1766, when Juan Pablo Martín Serrano was awarded the Polvadera Grant.

Permanent settlement seems to have begun with Juan Bautista Valdez, who bought a grant at the present location of Cañones in 1807.

[8] Cañones was visited by anthropologists Paul Kutsche and John R. Van Ness in the 1960s, who considered the community typical of what they called the Rio Arriba subculture of Hispanic New Mexico.

They concluded that this subculture was characterized by communal land grants, small economies, campanilismo (community spirit), and a fair degree of social equality.