Tapacito

Tapacito Ruin is one of several publicly accessible interpretive cultural sites administered by the Bureau of Land Management, Farmington Field Office in New Mexico. Tapacito is one of the earliest known pueblitos (constructed summer AD 1694) and is very different from most. It has no exterior doors or windows and access to the rooms was by roof hatches and ladders. It originally had at least seven ground floor rooms and a parapet. Its massive walls were constructed using a technique called "core-and-veneer," which was also used in many earlier Chacoan structures. This site may have been constructed by refugees from the Pueblo of Jemez after hostilities with the Spanish in July 1694. It may have already been abandoned by the time of a documented attack near this location by forces under Roque Madrid during a 1705 punitive campaign against the Navajo. Tapacito Ruin was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1987. For more information visit: https://www.blm.gov/visit/defensive-sites-of-dinetah