#quarai

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[mitsdriveswhere]

Idk why but I think ruins are often cooler in black and white

[2022-mmac]

Don't miss this incredible event! Sunday, September 17, 2023 at 2pm at Quarai. (In case of rain event will be held at MMAC.)

[nmnomad]

The Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument encompasses three sites: Abó, Quarai, and Gran Quivira. All three are around Mountainair, New Mexico, where the main visitor center is located.

[mutant-distraction]

Mike Rieman 2023

Great-horned OWI. Quarai Ruins. . 2022.

[rjzimmerman]

Excerpt from this story from the Sierra Club:

Over the past century, the biodiversity of apple trees has declined sharply in the United States. Monoculture orchards have erased the mature forested orchards that once served as habitat for dozens of bird species such as bluebirds, northern flickers, and scarlet tanagers. There once were some 16,000 named apple varieties in the US alone. We’ve now lost more than half of those varieties, with only 3,000 remaining. As a naturalist, I have been researching apple biodiversity for several years, and I find it especially gratifying when this pathway leads me to our rich, and sometimes forgotten, history of apple growing.

To rediscover some of that history, I looked to one of the earliest known places where apples were grown in North America—the Manzano Mountains. But for two weeks, I had been hearing “There are no apple trees left” and “I don’t know of any.” I’d spoken to half a dozen rangers at Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument and Manzano Mountains State Park. Despite their shrugs, my family and I drove a couple of hours south to Mountainair, New Mexico, to see for ourselves. In my heart, I couldn’t believe there were no historic apple trees in the monument's ruins, located in the foothills of the Manzano Mountains. After all, the mountains and the village at their base are named after the Spanish word for apple tree.

My husband and I had pored over a bevy of old maps and determined that a 1794 map by French cartographer Jean-Baptiste D’Anville seemed to have been the first to refer to the Sierra Moreno as the Mansos Mountains. At the time, the mountains may have been named for the Manso indigenous peoples. A later map by the American cartographer Samuel Mitchell refers to the mountains as Manzanas, and a map prepared the same year, in 1867, by the US Topographical Bureau officially christens the range as the Manzana Mountains. A paper published in New Mexico Geology in 2000 notes that the apple trees in the Salinas area are probably the oldest living apple trees in the country, with their history stretching back to early Spanish explorers and the native Tompiro and Tiwa peoples who planted the trees for 17th-century Franciscan friars.

When a beloved historic apple tree in the Pacific Northwest died in 2020, there was a considerable outcry. Rightly so. In contrast, even the Salinas rangers I spoke to didn’t know about a comparable treasure right under their noses. Perhaps with a turnover in positions, institutional memory has faded. Three gorgeous ruins remain of the Salinas settlements, and the New Mexico Bureau of Geology paper confirmed that the surviving stand of apple trees is located in the Quarai ruins. The paper characterized Quarai as nestled in a juniper forest, and ideal for apple growing since the land has natural springs. Tree-ring growth data estimated that the apple trees are from roughly 1800. Local legend has it that they were planted even earlier by the friars and early Spanish ranchers. If the Quarai trees are 224 years old, as per tree-ring estimates, they have outlived the Pacific Northwest’s oldest apple tree, believed to have germinated in 1826 or 1827, and died in 2020, at the age of 194.

[blabbernaculum]

Quarai Mission Ruins at Punta de Agua, New Mexico USA

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Salinas Pueblo Missions (2) (3) (4) (5) by David Nelson Blair

Via Flickr:

(1) The shale and sandstone Mission San Griorio de Abó, begun circa 1622, abandoned 1673. The ruins stand in the Estancia Basin of central New Mexico, one of three sites of the Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument. (2) The shale and sandstone Mission Nuestra Señora de la Purísima Concepción de Quarai, begun in 1627, abandoned circa 1677. (3) A Sonoran Spotted Whiptail (Aspidoscelis sonorae) catches the sunlight near the ruins of the Mission Nuestra Señora de la Purísima Concepción de Quarai. (4) Indian Paint Brush (Castilleja affinis) grow wild on the grounds of the Mission Nuestra Señora de la Purísima Concepción de Quarai. (5) Of the three Salinas Missions, Quarai enjoyed access to streams and endured the longest. However, enduring drought and human strife led to its abandonment by both Spaniards and pueblo peoples in 1677. Permanent human habitation would not return to the Estancia Basin until the early 19th century.     

[witsendliberation]

Quarai

[thomaswaynewolf]

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Mission church ruins at Quarai, Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument, New Mexico (© Thomas Roche/Getty Images)

[2022-mmac]

Classical Guitar Musical Performance, by Omar Villanueva, at the stunning Quarai ruins of Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument.

Sunday, September 15, 2024 2pm Come early for best seating!

In case of rain, event will be held at MMAC.

FREE to see! Donations appreciated. Everyone welcome!

Omar Villanueva holds a Master's degree in Classical Guitar Performance from the University of New Mexico. A multifaceted guitarist, Omar performs classical, Spanish and popular music from Latin-America ranging from the renaissance, baroque, classical, romantic, to pop a& Latin music arrangements for solo guitar.

Sponsored by New Mexico Arts, a Division of the Department of Cultural Affairs, and by the National Endowment from the Arts.

[poemino]

VENTO BÃO

Vento arrevoa cisco de chão.

Parede de pó que se alevanta

e vai buliçar com saias de donzelas.

É vem pré-d'água!

Insolente, vai atazanar

meio mundo:

Bigodes de velhinhos,

roupas de quarais,

remoinho de folhas de chão.

E cãozinho que nunca

vira vendaval!

Vento bão,

rasteirinho,

cheinho de chuva.

Vento-chuvaral!

Traz consigo

memórias tão antigas

como folhas de zinco

barulhando em telhados.

Vento amigo, vento antigo.

Que refresca

memórias de velhos

e encanta criancinhas.

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Quarai Mission Ruins National Monument, NM.

The Quarai Pueblo Mission was built between 1627-1632 and served as the seat of the Inquisition. This was the place where Spanish settlers were charged with crimes against the church- witchcraft, blasphemy, unfaithfullness, and creating love potions. Everyone knows love potions only lead to bad news. Once accused here, the blasphemers would be bound and sent to Mexico City for “trial”. Not that different from what was going on in Salem in the late 1600′s.

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Archaeology summer class at Quarai, Salinas National Monument, New Mexico

Date: 1920? Negative Number: 006645

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