Agua Fría, NM

 
 Photo: Kim Kurian
For centuries the Santa Fe River has been the center of life in Agua Fría, a traditional Hispanic village bordering Santa Fe. This May, for the first time in 50 years, residents came together to carry the image of San Ysidro Labrador, patron saint of farmers, from their village church across the fields to the river--a ritual often performed in past years when villagers asked the saint to bless the waters or to pray for rain. The occasion this year was the addition of nine riverside acres to the county's San Ysidro River Park. TPL has been working with Santa Fe County, other nonprofits, and community groups to protect and restore the river and to acquire land and easements for a five-mile riverfront greenway and trail between Agua Fría and Santa Fe. The trail will celebrate the river's rich presettlement and Hispanic culture and will connect to the new downtown Railyard Park, for which TPL acquired the land and is coordinating design and construction.




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