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Posi-Ouinge Pueblo ("Greenness Pueblo")

Tewa Culture ancestral village, occupied from 1350 C.E. to 1550 C.E.; located on a terrace on the west bank of the Ojo Caliente River, about .5km south of the famous hot springs of Ojo Caliente ("The Hot Eye"), New Mexico. It is one of the largest pueblos of the ancient southwest with over 2000 rooms. The Tewa Indian descendants of Posi-Ouinge, Tewa language speakers, now live in several Pueblos along the Rio Grande in the vicinity of Espanola and Santa Fe, New Mexico. The ruin is an archeological site in Rio Arriba County, New Mexico and Taos County, New Mexico. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.

Location coordinates: 36°17'57.2"N 106°03'22.3"W
36.299213, -106.056206

Elevation is 1927 (6323 feet) above sea level.

Materials: adobe walls, wood log roof structure, with mud/clay roof.

Photomontage of Posi-Ouinge CG model onto aerial photo of the actual site on the north terrace of the Ojo Caliente River valley. New Mexico's highest peak, Mt. Wheeler, above Taos, is visible on the horizon, upper left of image.

Looking west.

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Plan view with scale and orientation.

Data for CG model:
1.Survey topography maps from the U.S. Department of Interior Bureau of Land Management, 1990

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