Corrales New Mexico Tourism

Corrales lies on the old Alameda land grant.  In 1710, after an attempt by the Spanish government to reinstate an Indian population to Alameda Pueblo, a grant of the Alameda lands was given to Francisco Montes Vigil, a soldier in the Spanish army. 

The boundaries were “the ruin of an old pueblo (probably now Coronado monument) on the north, a small hill on the south (probably the northernmost volcano), the river on the east, and “prairies and hills” on the west. When the Alameda grant was reconfirmed in 1895, the eastern boundary was established near, and roughly parallel to, the railroad tracks.  The western boundary was firmed at the ceja – the high point on the east side of the Rio Puerco valley.  The northern boundary on a 1895 map is as far north as Bernalillo, which must have been on the east side of the river in 1710.  The southern boundary was firmed at approximately where Paseo del Norte today intersects with Coors.

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Corrales New Mexico Tourism

Corrales lies on the old Alameda land grant. In 1710, after an attempt by the Spanish government to reinstate an Indian population to Alameda Pueblo, a grant of the Alameda lands was given to Francisco Montes Vigil, a soldier in the Spanish army.

Corrales lies on the old Alameda land grant.  In 1710, after an attempt by the Spanish government to reinstate an Indian population to Alameda Pueblo, a grant of the Alameda lands was given to Francisco Montes Vigil, a soldier in the Spanish army. 