Taos Pueblo was built on both sides of the Pueblo River, and is the final site in a chain of Pueblo Indian dwellngs in the Taos Valley, dating as far back as the 900s.
The first known visitors where Europeans in 1540. In 1598 Mission San Geronimo de Taos was established, but was abandoned in 1846.
Taos Pueblo was one of the major centers of trade between the Rio Grande pueblos and the Plains Indians. Merchant caravans, soon traveled along the Chihuahua Trail from northern New Mexico to the cities of Mexico.
1680 Taos Pueblo became a center of the Great Pueblo Revolt, which was a regional uprising or response to Spanish mistreatment of the Pueblo Indians. The revolt drove out the Spanish from New Mexico until 1692.
Today the pueblo is inhabited and consist of adobe two story and five story residential blocks, of which many are only accessible by ladder. The original defensive wall, kivas and the ruins of the mission can be seen today.
Taos Pueblo is a National Historic Landmark in Taos, New Mexico.
Guided tours are available May-October
Visitors welcome daily 8:00am-4:30pm
closed during some religious ceremoinies
Fee for admission and for photography
For more information call: 505-758-1028
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