Taos (New Mexico)
| Taos | |
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 Taos Plaza |
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| Location in New Mexico | |
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| Basic data | |
| State : | United States |
| State : | New Mexico |
| County : | Taos County |
| Coordinates : | 36 ° 24 ′ N , 105 ° 35 ′ W |
| Time zone : | Mountain ( UTC − 7 / −6 ) |
| Residents : | 5,716 (as of 2010) |
| Population density : | 411.2 inhabitants per km 2 |
| Area : | 13.9 km 2 (approx. 5 mi 2 ) of which 13.9 km 2 (approx. 5 mi 2 ) is land |
| Height : | 2124 m |
| Postal code : | 87571 |
| Area code : | +1 575 |
| FIPS : | 35-76200 |
| GNIS ID : | 0911545 |
| Website : | www.taosgov.com |
 Taos, 1907 |
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Taos is a community with the status of a town in New Mexico , USA at 2124 m altitude at the foot of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains . The place is in the valley of the Rio Grande and about 70 miles (about 113 km) north-northeast of Santa Fe and Los Alamos . Taos has 5716 inhabitants (US Census 2010) and is the seat of the county government ( County Seat of Taos County ).
history
Taos originated as a Spanish settlement near Taos Pueblo , the oldest continuously inhabited settlement on the American continent. In 1540 the conquistadors under the Spanish leader Hernando de Alvarado advanced from the south along the Rio Grande . At a tributary, the Rio Pueblo , they met Anasazi Indians, who inhabited the Taos Pueblo since the 10th century. Their descendants, the Taos Indians, still live in the two pueblos , which are up to 800 years old , multi-storey terraced buildings made of adobe adobe bricks .
In the 17th century, the Spanish colonialists founded a settlement downriver of the Pueblos in the valley on the Rio Grande, named after the Indians, today's Taos. The Indian influence can still be seen in Taos today in the art and construction: the most magnificent example of a Spanish adobe building is the massive church of San Francisco de Asis in the nearby Ranchos de Taos .
Mexico broke away from Spain in 1821 . The Spanish influence diminished, English and French traders and trappers and fur traders moved to Taos to hunt the southern Rocky Mountains .
In the Mexican-American War 1846–1848 Taos was the first city in Mexico to be occupied by American troops. In 1847, during the Taos uprising of the Spanish and Indian population, the American interim governor Charles Bent was slain in Taos. The revolt was immediately put down by the army. After the war, Taos, all of New Mexico, as well as Arizona , Utah , Nevada , California and parts of Wyoming and Montana fell to the United States with the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo . At the beginning of the 20th century, a wave of American artists came to Taos from the east coast, including Bert Kreuzkopf , Ernest Blumenschein and Mabel Dodge Luhan (1879–1962) who tried to establish the Southwest as a cultural region.
In 1989, the hum sound phenomenon was first reported in Taos , which is why it is also called Taos-Hum .
At the end of July / beginning of August 2018, north of Taos in the rural municipality of Amalia, 5 adults and 11 children aged 1 to 15 were found in the simplest conditions with a caravan within a wall of car tires and the body of a missing person. According to a foster mother, the alleged Islamists, some of whom are armed, are said to have trained children for school shootings .
Sports
- Ski season from late November to mid-April; annual snowfall: 88 cm
- The Rio Grande and its tributaries are interesting for sport fishermen and water sports enthusiasts.
- Other sports: golf, horse riding, hot air balloon rides, snowmobiling, tennis, ice skating and horse-drawn sleigh rides
Personalities
sons and daughters of the town
- Chief Ouray (1833–1880), chief of the Ute Indian tribe
Other people associated with Taos
The English novelist DH Lawrence lived on a ranch near Taos in 1924/25. After his death in 1930, his widow Frieda von Richthofen returned there with his ashes. The ashes rest in a small mausoleum. The widow died on the ranch in 1956.
Some of the footage from the cult film Easy Rider was filmed in Taos. Many hippies moved there during this time and some stayed.
Donald Rumsfeld has his private residence here. He lives in an old dairy with lands in El Prado , north of Taos.
The painter Agnes Martin lived here in the 1950s and from 1993 until her death.
Julia Roberts has lived temporarily in New Mexico since 1995 . She got married in Taos. According to People magazine, Roberts-Moder owns 43 acres of land in the region. She was able to acquire 13 hectares of this from Donald Rumsfeld.
Dennis Hopper lived in Taos for twelve years since the early 1980s and is buried there.
Dean Stockwell also lived in Taos until May 2017.
Individual evidence
- ↑ “Edge of Taos Desert”: Mabel Dodge Luhan as a bridge between cultures ( Memento from June 7, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Children trained for school massacres? : Public Prosecutor: "Big Danger" orf.at, August 9, 2018, accessed August 9, 2018.
- ^ Andy Lenderman: For Rumsfeld, a land of disenchantment - War protests at defense secretary's hideaways near Taos no vacation . In: Dallas Morning News, March 11, 2003.
- ↑ Last honor for Dennis Hopper. (No longer available online.) RP Online June 3, 2010, archived from the original on June 6, 2010 ; Retrieved August 21, 2010 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ An Afternoon With Dean Stockwell. taostyle.net Online, January 30, 2015, accessed September 22, 2018 .
- ↑ . twitter.comt Online, May 11, 2017, accessed September 22, 2018 .
- ↑ Update on Dean Stockwell - April, 2018. twitter.comt Online, April 24, 2018, accessed September 22, 2018 .
