Ojito in Rio Arriba County, New Mexico — The American Mountains (Southwest)

Jicarilla Apache Centennial Highway

Photographed by Jimmy Emerson, September 3, 2025

1. Jicarilla Apache Centennial Highway Marker

Inscription. The Jicarilla Apaches, a Southern Athabascan people, migrated to the Southwest from Northwest Canada. The Jicarilla Apache preservation homeland extend from Southeastern Colorado, through northeastern New Mexico, to the Texas/Oklahoma panhandle. The Jicarilla Apache were named by the Spanish for the red baskets they wove. They are composed of two clans the Llanero (plains) and the Ollero (mountain).

Topics. This historical marker is listed in this topic list: Indigenous Peoples and Communities.

Location. 36° 28.529′ N, 107° 11.05′ W. Marker is in Ojito, New Mexico, in Rio Arriba County. It is on State Highway 537, on the left when traveling south. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: NM-537, Lindrith NM 87029, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this marker is in Northern New Mexico.

It is also in the American Southwest,

in the Mountain West,

and at the Four Corners.

Globally, it is in North America,

the Rocky Mountains,

the Western Hemisphere,

the Western World,

and the Anglosphere.

Historically, it finds

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itself in what was once New Spain,

the territory of the Ancestral Puebloans,

and the Republic of Texas.

Credits. This page was last revised on August 27, 2026. It was originally submitted on August 23, 2026, by Jimmy Emerson of Dalton, Georgia. This page has been viewed 11 times since then. Photo 1. submitted on August 23, 2026, by Jimmy Emerson of Dalton, Georgia. • Andrew Ruppenstein was the editor who published this page.