Nuevo Casas Grandes, Chihuahua

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Nuevo Casas Grandes is a city and its surrounding area. It is located in the northwestern part of Chihuahua on the Casas Grandes river, situated in a wide, fertile valley on the 4,000-foot Mesa del Norte. The city of Nuevo Casas Grandes, which had a 2005 census population of 50,863. The city was founded in the 1870's. Nuevo Casas Grandes got its name from another town about a mile away called Casas Grandes. A train station was built in that area and soon people migrated near it. The area around Nuevo Casas Grandes is noted for its great historical and archaeological heritage. Five miles southwest of Nuevo Casas Grandes is the most important archaeological site in northern Mexico, including the Casas Grandes Archaeological Zone and the Paquime' Archaeological Zone highlighted by the new Paquimé (which, translated to Spanish, means "Big Houses" or Casas Grandes) Museum. Nuevo Casas Grandes is also world famous for the nearby "potter village" of Mata Ortiz and its revival of pottery in the ancient Paquimé tradition. Click here for their website. The railroad station in Nuevo Casas Grandes

Photos by Sandy Broadbent