Posi-ouinge

Posi-ouinge
Posi-ouinge is located in New Mexico
Posi-ouinge
Location within New Mexico
Nearest cityOjo Caliente, New Mexico
Coordinates36°17′57″N 106°03′23″W / 36.2993°N 106.0563°W / 36.2993; -106.0563
Area23.5 acres (9.5 ha)
MPSLate Prehistoric Cultural Developments Along the Rio Chama and Tributaries MPS
NRHP reference No.93000675
Added to NRHPAugust 5, 1993

Posi-ouinge (Tewa: P’osí Ówîngeh Kayyee, transl. 'moss-greenness ruin') is an archeological site in Rio Arriba County, New Mexico and Taos County, New Mexico near Ojo Caliente. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993 for its information potential. Located on the banks of the Rio Ojo Caliente at the site of Ojo Caliente, it is one of the principal Tewa Pueblo ancestral sites in New Mexico, with 13 kivas, and a prehistoric population of approximately 2,000.

The Bureau of Land Management reports:

Posi-Ouinge, the 'Greenness Pueblo,' is a large prehistoric village dated to the 13th through the 16th centuries AD. The pueblo may have had well over 2,000 rooms, making it one of the largest in the southwest. The village was inhabited by Tewa Indians whose descendants now live near the Rio Grande in the Espanola area. The word 'Tewa' refers to a group of Puebloan inhabitants living along the northern Rio Grande and speaking a similar language. Today, the pueblo lies above the hot springs resort at Ojo Caliente. A short, self-guided hike beginning just west of the Mineral Spring Hotel takes you up onto the river terrace above and then around the site through room blocks and to vistas with beautiful views of the Ojo Caliente valley.

Access to the trail is behind the Ojo Caliente Mineral Springs Resort at 50 Los Banos Drive in Ojo Caliente.

Notes

  1. ↑ Also seen as P’oeseewi Ówîngeh Kayyee, Pose-uingge

References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
  2. ↑ Valdez, Roberto H. (June 26, 2015). A Case Study in Toponymy: Sampling and Classifying a Tri-Lingual Place Name Inventory Found in the North-Central State of New Mexico (Masters thesis). Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico. p. 290. Retrieved March 5, 2026.
  3. ↑ Ortman, Scott G (2012). Winds from the North : Tewa Origins and Historical Anthropology. University of Utah Press. ISBN 9781607819929. Retrieved October 11, 2026.
  4. ↑ Curtis, Edward (1926). The North American Indian. Volume 17 - The Tewa. The Zuni. ~ Paperbound (Now in the public domain. ed.). Classic Books Company. pp. 191–. ISBN 978-0-7426-9817-8. Retrieved September 27, 2011. {{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)
  5. ↑ "BLM Recreation Map: Posi-ouinge". Retrieved June 21, 2018.