Tierra Amarilla is the county seat for Rio Arriba County
Abiquiu is in Rio Arriba County
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On Highway 84 (U.S. 84 at milepost 211.5) near Local Road 187, on the left when traveling south.
Established on the site of an abandoned Indian pueblo, Abiquiú in the mid-18th century became a settlement of Spaniards and genizaros (Hispanicized Indians). In 1776, explorers Fray Francisco Atanacio Dominguez and Fray Silvestre Vélez de Escalante . . . — — Map (db m73192) HM
Near U.S. 84 at milepost 225 near Local Road 1708.
In 1881 David Baldwin discovered small fossilized bones
on what is now Ghost Ranch. He mailed the bones to
paleontologist Edward Drinker Cope in Philadelphia. Cope had been through the area in the late 1870s and had urged Baldwin to explore and . . . — — Map (db m75212) HM
On Highway 84 (U.S. 84 at milepost 215.5) north of Abiquiu, on the right when traveling north.
One of America’s great and most celebrated painters of the twentieth century, Georgia O’Keeffe is known for her unique depictions of natural and architectural forms. She began spending summers painting in Northern New Mexico in 1929 and moved from . . . — — Map (db m73124) HM
On Highway 84 (U.S. 84 at milepost 215.5) north of Abiquiu, on the right when traveling north.
The colorful formations exposed here are the slope forming Chinle Shale of Triassic age, deposited in streams, lakes, and floodplains some 250 million years ago and the cliff-forming Entrada Sandstone of Jurassic age deposited as windblown sand some . . . — — Map (db m73158) HM