Northern Rio Grande National Heritage Area

Northern Rio Grande National Heritage Area is a federally designated National Heritage Area in the U.S. state of New Mexico.

[1] 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.

[2] The Northern Rio Grande National Heritage Area was authorized in 2006 by Public Law 109-338.

[4] 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.

Taos Pueblo .
San Ildefonso Pueblo , by Ansel Adams .
Valles Caldera National Preserve .
Bandelier National Monument .
San Francisco de Asis Mission Church , Ranchos de Taos .