Puye Ruins | |
 Entrances to the dwellings | |
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| Nearest city | Española, New Mexico |
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| Coordinates | 35°58′32″N 106°13′39″W / 35.97556°N 106.22750°W |
| Area | 1,350 acres (550 ha) |
| Built | 1250 |
| Website | "Puye Cliffs Welcome Center]". |
| NRHP reference No. | 66000481[1] |
| Significant dates | |
| Added to NRHP | October 15, 1966 |
| Designated NHL | May 23, 1966[2] |
The Puye Cliff Dwellings are the ruins of an abandoned pueblo, located in Santa Clara Canyon on Santa Clara Pueblo Reservation land near Española, New Mexico. Established in the late 1200s or early 1300s and abandoned by about 1600, this is among the largest of the prehistoric Indian settlements on the Pajarito Plateau, showing a variety of architectural forms and building techniques.
The site was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1966.
The name Puye (Tewa language: pu, “cottontail rabbits,” and ye, "to assemble"), possibly a place for hunting rabbits.[3][4]
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ "National Historic Landmarks Survey, New Mexico" (PDF). National Park Service. Retrieved December 11, 2016.
- ^ Pearce, T.M.,editor, New Mexico Place Names, A Geographical Dictionary, University of New Mexico Press 1965. ISBN 0-8263-0082-0
- ^ Harrington, John Peabody (1916). The Ethnogeography of the Tewa Indians. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office. p. 262.