Taos Pueblo
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How it came to be
Taos Pueblo is an adobe settlement in the valley of a small tributary of the Rio Grande in New Mexico. The Pueblo people have lived here for about a thousand years. The first pueblo was probably built around 1325, and archaeology suggests the community moved slightly west to the present site around 1400.
The houses are multi-storey blocks of adobe, with walls about 70 cm thick at the base and 35 cm at the top, replastered every year in a village ceremony. Of the first Spanish church, San Geronimo de Taos, only rubble mounds and a lone bell tower remain.
The houses and ceremonial buildings are still lived in, and they carry the culture of the Pueblo peoples of Arizona and New Mexico. Taos Pueblo was inscribed in 1992, the only US World Heritage site listed for a living Native American culture.
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