Poshuouinge (pronounced Po-shoe-ween-gay) is an abandoned ancient Tewa site that sits 2.5 miles south of Abiquiu, not far from Georgia O’keeffe’s Ghost Ranch. It has a nice ~1 mile roundtrip hike to a lookout above the ancient pueblo. Be warned, you are sitting at around 6,500 feet so you may be short of breath. At the top you can clearly see the outline of the pueblo dated from around 1375.

It was only occupied for around 100 years before the people continued their mass migration south into the Rio Grande Valley. The people had been Mesa Verdean Tewa people who, after the Anasazi Civil War & Cultural Upheaval, left for the east just before the Four Corners area experienced a world ending drought and became devoid of Ancestral Puebloans and Anasazi by around 1300. To learn more about this migration, listen to my podcast episode over it, or better yet, the whole series. Famous Southwestern Archaeologists Adolph Bandelier and Jean Jeançon both excavated it. It was tentatively called Turquoise ruins although it is not believed that any turquoise production took place here. The site also sported two main plazas and at least one large kiva which you can see by the circle of stones with the small tree in the middle.