Taos Pueblo

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Taos Pueblo, also called the Pueblo of Taos, Pueblo de Taos, or Teotho, is an ancient Tiwa-speaking Pueblo inhabited by the Taos people. The Pueblo is one of the 575 federally-recognized Native American governments in the United States, and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Taos Pueblo is the oldest continuously inhabited city in the United States and is the only U.S. World Heritage where people live; about 4,500 people lived there in 2012. The Pueblo's old town lies about 1 mile (1.6 km) north of the modern town of Taos, New Mexico, though tribal land of 95,000 acres (38,000 ha) is attached to the Pueblo. The Taos people settled in the Taos Valley around 900 CE. They constructed the oldest building still standing around 1000, with more ones built in the late 1200s and early 1300s. Taos was the most populous city-state of all the Pueblo peoples in the 1540s. It is the origin of the younger Tiwa Pueblos of Picuris, Sandia, Isleta, and Ysleta del Sur. Taos was the headquarters of the Pueblo Revolt...

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