Thursday, August 5, 2010

Acoma Pueblo, New Mexico, "Sky City"


Acoma Pueblo, (Place of Readiness) 70 acres atop a 370 foot high Mesa, where first native peoples found refuge from the Apache and Navajo. A mesa is wider than it is tall. It has been continuously inhabited from 1150 AD to this day. It's a few miles southwest of Albuquerque, New Mexico off I-40.