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- This article is about the ranch and museum in Santa Fe County. For the village near Mora, see Golondrinas, New Mexico
Coordinates: 35°35′44″N, 106°04′35″W
El Rancho de las Golondrinas (The Ranch of the Swallows) is a former ranch in the northern part of the U.S. state of New Mexico that has been recreated as a "living museum". It was the last camping place (cf. caravanserai) on the Camino Real before reaching Santa Fe, New Mexico. Its 200 acres is located 12 mi (19 km) southwest of Santa Fe on Los Pinos Road, just north of La Bajada Hill.
The ranch was founded by Miguel Vega y Coca in 1710.[2] The "living museum" recreates 18th Century Spanish colonial ranch life.[3] Guides are dressed in period clothing and demonstrate how people lived for example grinding their own flour, making their own tools, shoeing horses. There are two annual festivals at El Rancho de las Golondrinas, one in the Spring and one in October.[3] Its acequia system (irrigation ditch complex) is on the Register of Historic Places for New Mexico.[4]
- ^ National Register Information System. National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service (2007-01-23).
- ^ Julyan, Robert Hixson (1998) "El Rancho de las Golondrinas" The place names of New Mexico (2nd ed.) University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, NM, p. 120, ISBN 0-8263-1688-3
- ^ a b Harris, Richard (2007) "Off the Beaten Path: New Mexico (8th ed.) Morris Book Publishing, Guilford, CT, p. 103, ISBN 0-7627-4205-4
- ^ National Register of Historic Places: Acequia System of El Rancho de las Golondrinas
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