Pueblo of Santa Ana

The people call the pueblo Tamaya and themselves Tamayame, and the panel's ceremonial site is still home in a real sense: nearly every family keeps a house in the old village, adobe rooms around the church of Santa Ana de Tamaya, with no electricity. Daily life runs in three communities along the Rio Grande, Ranchitos, Rebahene and Chicale, on land the pueblo began buying back in the 1700s. The buying has not stopped. In 2016 it bought the former Alamo Ranch, renamed Tamaya Kwii Kee Nee Puu, and in 2024 that land went into federal trust.

What the plaque says

Official Scenic Historic Marker Pueblo of Santa Ana The Keres-speaking pueblo of Santa Ana was established on its present site in 1693, as part of Diego de Vargas' reconquest of New Mexico. The spot, exposed to flooding, was poorly suited for farming, and today the residents live on their farms along the Río Grande instead of the pueblo, which is used as a ceremonial site.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Petroglyph National Monument — 20 mi
  Some 24,000 images pecked into the dark basalt of Albuquerque's West Mesa, protected in 1990 and then crossed by a city boulevard.

More markers nearby

• Bernalillo — 5.4 mi
• Trinidad Gachupin Medina (ca. 1883-1964) — 7.4 mi
• Pueblo of Zía — 7.4 mi
• Spanish Entrada Site — 8.2 mi