The imposing San Gregorio de Abo Mission, Abo Ruins, Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument, New Mexico.
On a wind swept pass to the Rio Grande Valley, the Mission of San Gregorio de Abo built with stone and adobe buttressing techniques unusual for 17th century New Mexico, looms above the landscape. A thriving pueblo community when the Spanish arrived in 1581, it was abandoned in 1675 due to Apache Indian raids, drought and famine. Kiva and Cross, Kachina and Christian, two religious cultures co-operate and clash at Abo Ruins, Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument, New Mexico. The Chihuahuan Desert is a desert, and an ecoregion designation, that straddles the border in the central and northern portions of the Mexican Plateau, bordered on the west by the extensive Sierra Madre Occidental range, and overlaying northern portions of the east range, the Sierra Madre Oriental. On the side it occupies the valleys and basins of central and southern New Mexico, Texas west of the Pecos River and southeastern Arizona.
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Location: San Gregorio de Abo Mission, Salinas Pueblo Missions, New Mexico, USA, United States, America
Photo credit: © M L Pearson / Alamy / Afripics
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