Ojo Caliente is located in Northern New Mexico. The town is well
know for the hot mineral springs and is about 50 miles north of
Santa Fe. From there you can go on a hike to see the Posi Pueblo
ruins. The Posi Ouinge (po-see-o-wing-gay) was actually the home to
the Tewa Indians. According to the Bureau of Land Management's
information flyer: they lived in and around Ojo Caliente during the
late 1300's until the early 1500's. Also: Posi Pueblo was inhabited
by generations for over a thousand years and the village may have
had as many as 1,000 ground floor rooms and almost as many on the
2nd and 3rd stories. Another note in the information flyer that you
can take on your hike from the BLM is that: oral histories tell us
Posi-ouinge was the Tewa home for a long time until an epidemic
struck and the elders decided the people should depart. When you
arrive to the area you can still find shards of clay from when the
Tewa lived there. You however MUST leave any pottery or artifacts
where you find them as it is illegal take any. One can only imagine
as I did (and was inspired to write the poem of the Posi Ouinge)
what a wonderful, spiritual place this once was. Another wonderful
hike to do in the area is when the aspen trees are changing colors.
This is what inspired me to write The Old Aspen Tree
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