Pourtant, c'est une destinatino Extra-Ordinaire qui vaut, plus que le détour, le voyage, et qui autorise, en poussant un peu sa Chevy, à arpenter les Grands Parcs Nationaux de l'Ouest, pas très loin de là.
Voici quelques liens pour donner envie et préparer ou re-préparer le voyage...
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Si j'ai un peu tardé à écrire ce billet c'est tout simplement parce qu'il me pose des problèmes...Même le titre, car ceux dont je vais vous parler maintenant, étaient-ils des Indiens d'Amérique ou non? Si non, à partir de quand peut-on parler des Amérindiens? Quel lien entre ceux-ci et les Anasazis? Et surtout comment rester dans le cadre de notre voyage, le Nouveau Mexique et ses pueblos? Pour cette dernière questions, la réponse est facile: je considère ce billet comme une introduction, les Anasazis étant considérés comme les ancêtres des Indiens pueblos; un des premiers parcs que nous avons visité, Mesa Verde (Etat du Colorado), les concerne directement.
Par contre je n'ai pas envie de faire l'impasse sur la préhistoire de l'Amérique du Nord. Bref, tout ce préambule pour dire qu'on ne sait pas grand chose, malgré quelques découvertes. Les "Clovis" seraient venus par le détroit de Béring, pendant la glaciation qui avait fait baisser le niveau de la mer. Pueblos indigenas. Native Heritage. American Indians. Acoma Pueblo Landing Page. Hot Links for American Indian Tribal Libraries. Why Did Pueblo Indians ... Taos. The sacred sites of religion Native Americans. Musées New Mexico Museums. Petroglyph National Monument, New Mexico. Hotels The nearest hotels to Petroglyph National Monument are in west Albuquerque, around exit 155 of I-40.
Access The national monument, to which entry is free, is well signed from both nearby interstate highways (I-15 and I-40), and reached by wide city streets through residential districts. First stop should be at the visitor center, situated at the foot of the mesa along Western Trail NW, from where the most interesting site (Rinconada Canyon, which has the longest trail) is one mile south, while the other two are a few miles further north. Off-trail hiking is possible though not encouraged, and the mesa edge stretches for over ten miles within the monument so there is plenty of scope for discovering new petroglyphs, away from the popular areas. Rinconada Canyon Parking lot for Rinconada Canyon is just off busy Unser Boulevard, at the junction with St Josephs Avenue.
Boca Negra Canyon Piedras Marcadas Canyon Map of Petroglyph National Monument. White Sands National Monument, Alamogordo, New Mexico. Military Bases The national monument is entirely surrounded by the White Sands Missile Range; just east is the Holloman Air Force Base, and a few miles north is one of the space shuttle landing sites. The space theme is reflected in the nearby town of Alamogordo, home to the International Space Hall of Fame and the Space Theater. The dunes extend north into the missile range for another 12 miles. Approach The main road past White Sands National Monument is US 70; this (and the dunes) is closed to all traffic for a few hours once or twice a week as test missiles are fired overhead.
A paved road (the Dunes Drive) leads from the visitor center at the monument entrance on US 70 to the start of the sands 2 miles north. The edge dunes are just a few feet high and support some plant life, with several species of grass, yucca and saltbush managing to survive at scattered points, but further into the monument there is little or no vegetation, just an unbroken white landscape. Trails Camping Wildlife. Ouest et Pacifique - Nouveau Mexique - Grottes de Carlsbad NP. La célèbre Grande Salle, dont le plafond chargé de stalactites atteint la hauteur d'un immeuble de 22 étages, pourrait contenir facilement 14 terrains de football. Elle est considérée comme la plus vaste caverne du monde. Des projecteurs habilement disposés font ressortir ses roches teintées de rose et d'incarnat, ses niches et ses colonnes qui ont parfois l'aspect tourmenté de totems. Au-dessus de ces merveilles s'étend un pays plat déroulant à l'infini ses immensités quasi-désertiques où les épineux percent les semelles les plus solides et où diverses espèces de lézards se dorent au soleil.
Les excursions à pieds et le camping y sont limités par la quantité d'eau dont chacun peut se munir. Le calcaire dans lequel sont creusées les grottes provient de sédiments marins déposés, il y a près de 250 millions d'années, au bord d'une langue de terre émergeant des eaux. Une épaisse couche de guano tapissait le sol : il ne tarda pas à envisager tout le parti qu'il pourrait en tirer. White Sands National Monument - White Sands National Monument. Georgia O'Keeffe Museum - Georgia O'Keeffe Museum. Sangre de Cristo Mountains travel guide. Sangre de Cristo scenery above Taos Ski Valley Regions[edit] Carson National Forest, including Wheeler Peak Wilderness Latir Peak Wilderness Cruces Basin Wilderness Santa Fe National Forest, including Pecos Wilderness Cities[edit] Several small villages on the slopes of the mountains, including (note: "W" means town on the west slopes, "E" on the east -- the distinction is important for planning travel): Angel Fire (E) Chimayó (W) Cimarron (E) Cowles (E) Cundiyo (W) Eagle Nest (E) Mora (E) Ocate (E) Pecos (E) Peñasco (W) Picuris Pueblo (W) Questa (W) Red River (E/W) Sapello (E) Truchas (W) Other destinations[edit] Understand[edit] The highest summit in the Sangres in New Mexico is Wheeler Peak, elevation 13,161', a comparatively undistinguished bump on a ridge line above Taos.
Towns on the eastern slopes of the Sangres tend to have cultural ties to the Great Plains, while the ones on the west side are more closely tied to the Hispanic and Native American settlements along the Rio Grande. Sangre de Cristo Mountains. The Sangre de Cristos are fault block mountains with major fault lines running along both the east and west sides of the mountains. In places, there are also fault lines cutting right through the mountain chain. The mountains were pushed up about 27 million years ago, pretty much as one big chunk of rock. On the west side is the San Luis Valley with the Rio Grande Rift Zone running down the middle. On the southeast side is the Raton Basin with a quiet but still active volcano field. On the northeast side are the Wet Mountains and the Front Range, areas of pre-Cambrian rock raised up during the Colorado Orogeny some 1.7 billion years ago. The Blanca Massif is also pre-Cambrian rock while the main body of the Sangres themselves is composed of Permian-Pennsylvanian rock and a mix of igneous intrusions, conglomerates and shale that is only about 250 million years old.
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