Coronado State Monument
12/5/10, Sunday
5:30pm to 8:30pm
Christmas at Kuaua
Free After-Hours Holiday Event
Free admission. Get into the holiday spirit with an evening of family fun! The grounds of Coronado State Monument will be decorated with hundreds of flickering luminarias and thousands of Christmas lights. Children’s activities start at 5 pm with candy canes, popcorn, and breaking of candy-filled piñatas. Local boy scouts begin the lighting of the luminarias around 5:30 pm while rangers ignite a bonfire on the site’s South Plaza. Carolers help ring in the holidays under the portal and bell ringers herald the approach of Mr. and Mrs. Claus at 6 pm. The evening includes live entertainment, storytelling, traditional Pueblo dancers, and drawings for door prizes sponsored by Sun Father’s Gift Shop. Refreshments will include biscochitos and delicious hot chocolate. This free event is sure to be the perfect start to your holiday season.
For information: 505-867.5351
New Mexico State Monuments.
About Coronado State Monument - Just minutes north of Albuquerque (off of I-25, exit 242) in Bernalillo, is Coronado State Monument where Francisco Vásquez de Coronado, with 300 soldiers and 800 Indian allies from New Spain entered the valley while looking for the fabled Seven Cities of Gold. Instead he found villages inhabited by prosperous native people. Coronado's party camped near the Tiwa pueblo of Kuaua, one of the many villages encountered by the explorers.
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