Address Restricted, Espanola, New Mexico. County/parish: Rio Arriba.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places October 15, 1966. NRIS 66000481.
1 contributing site.
The Puye Cliff Dwellings are the ruins of an abandoned pueblo, located in Santa Clara Canyon on Santa Clara Pueblo Reservation land near Española, New Mexico. Established in the late 1200s or early 1300s and abandoned by about 1600, this is among the largest of the prehistoric Indian settlements on the Pajarito Plateau, showing a variety of architectural forms and building techniques.
The site was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1966.
The name Puye (Tewa language: pu, “cottontail rabbits,” and ye, "to assemble"), possibly a place for hunting rabbits.
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