Historical Marker

Las Nutrias

Historical marker location:

NM Highway 304, Bernado vicinity, New Mexico

( Northeast of Bernardo)

During the late 17th century, this area had become well known to the Spanish. Called La Vega de Las Nutrias, or meadow of the beavers, it was a welcome paraje, or stopping place, for caravans on the Camino Real. Eighteenth century attempts at settlement in this region failed, but by 1860 the current village had been established and a church had been built by the new settlers.