El Morro National Monument

El Morro National Monument
IUCN category V (protected landscape/seascape)

Location	Cibola County, New Mexico, USA
Nearest city	Grants, NM
Coordinates	35°2′18″N 108°21′12″W / 35.03833°N 108.35333°W / 35.03833; -108.35333Coordinates: 35°2′18″N 108°21′12″W / 35.03833°N 108.35333°W / 35.03833; -108.35333
Area	1,278.72 acres (517.48 ha) 1,039.92 acres (420.84 ha) federal
Created	December 8, 1906 (1906-December-08)
Visitors	857,883 (in 2004)
Governing body	National Park Service
Website	El Morro National Monument

El Morro National Monument is located on an ancient east-west trail in western New Mexico. The main feature of this National Monument is a great sandstone promontory with a pool of water at its base.

As a shaded oasis in the western U.S. desert, this site has seen many centuries of travelers. The remains of a mesa top pueblo are atop the promontory where between about 1275 to 1350 AD, up to 1500 people lived in this 875 room pueblo. The Spaniard explorers called it El Morro (The Headland). The Zuni Indians call it "A'ts'ina" (Place of writings on the rock). Anglo-Americans called it Inscription Rock. Travelers left signatures, names, dates, and stories of their treks. While some of the inscriptions are fading, there are still many that can be seen today, some dating to the 17th century. Among the Anglo-American emigrants who left their names there in 1858 were several members of the Rose-Baley Party, including Leonard Rose and John Udell.^[1] Some petroglyphs and carvings were made by the Ancestral Puebloan centuries before Europeans started making their mark. In 1906, U.S. federal law prohibited further carving.

The many inscriptions, water pool, pueblo ruins, and top of the promontory are all accessible via park trails.

It is on the Trails of the Ancients Byway, one of the designated New Mexico Scenic Byways.^[2]

Gallery

Inscription by Juan de Oñate in 1605. This is the oldest historical inscription at El Morro.
Inscription recording a 1629 expedition by Francisco Manuel de Silva Nieto
El Morro in 1868, photographed by Alexander Gardner
Native American petroglyph
Sandstone bluff at El Morro
Ponderosa pine along Mesa Top trail loop

References

↑ Weigle, Marta and White, Peter (2003). The Lore of New Mexico, p. 56. University of New Mexico Press
↑ Trail of the Ancients. New Mexico Tourism Department. Retrieved August 14, 2014.

United States Government Printing Office (1995). El Morro National Monument. GPO 387-038/00173

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