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Truchas, New Mexico Map Art
Building by building, with labeled streets and shaded relief.
12" x 18" Archival Matte Print
A Map of Home. A Work of Art.
Explore Truchas, New Mexico from a whole new perspective. Created using aerial imagery and detailed geographic data, this map captures Truchas building by building, with labeled streets, familiar landmarks, and shaded topographical relief that highlights the natural contours of the landscape.
Combining modern data with the timeless character of a vintage atlas, this map is just as interesting up close as it is beautiful on the wall. Whether you grew up in Truchas, spent memorable years there, or call it home today, this unique map is a great way to celebrate a place that means something to you. Zoom in on the preview to look for your street, and then order a print to put your memories on the wall.
Three ways to hang it
Unframed archival matte, a black wood frame or a white wood frame.
Up close
Geography Worth Displaying
This map was created using accurate cartographic data and authoritative geographic sources, including the U.S. Geological Survey and the Census Bureau. The map brings together terrain, waterways, roads, and building detail. The majority of the streets are labeled, houses are accurately depicted, and the topography is derived from government sources. Combining local data with carefully composed color and shading leads to this beautifully detailed Truchas artwork for your wall.
Rather than simply showing street outlines, we’ve included as many of the street names as we could reasonably fit on the map while keeping their names legible. Zoom in on the high resolution preview to see exactly what’s on the map. We truly set out to create a statement piece for anyone who loves Truchas. So whether it’s for you, or a gift for someone you love, we hope this map of Truchas brings back fond memories.
Read the story behind this map of Truchas, New Mexico from 2026.
Find your street
Names on the Truchas map
Every name below is printed on this map. Look for your street, your school, the park where you played, or the pond down the road.
Streets and roads4
- Forest Road 639
- 1305th
- Pr 1302
- Cam de Laddera
Names are listed as they appear on the printed map. Zoom into the product photos to find them.
About Truchas, New Mexico
Truchas is a community of 467 people in Rio Arriba County, set on a high ridge of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains at about 8,000 feet. Its name is Spanish for trout, after the river that waters its fields. In the middle of the 18th century, raiders pressed New Mexico's Spanish colony from every side, so the governor encouraged new settlements on the frontier to shield the older towns.
On March 18, 1754, the governor, Tomás Vélez Cachupín, awarded land along the Río Truchas to settlers from Chimayó and nearby villages, who had already dug an irrigation ditch and planted crops there. He set strict terms: a common league for grazing and wood, farmland split evenly, and houses joined in a square around a plaza with a single gate, where livestock could be driven during raids. The grant was later measured at 14,786.58 acres.
- Muskets asked, muskets deniedComanche raids grew worse in the 1770s. In March 1772 the villagers asked Spanish authorities for 12 muskets, powder and protection, and a Spanish archive shows the same answer written on both requests: denied. No help came.
- The burning tower of 1774In 1774 Spanish forces seized eight Comanche men and eleven women who had come to trade at Taos and locked them in a defensive tower inside the Truchas compound. The prisoners killed two guards trying to escape but were trapped inside, and when they refused to surrender, the settlers set the tower on fire. All of them died as they fled the flames.
- 122 people by 1776Fray Francisco Atanasio Dominguez visited in 1776 and counted 26 families, 122 people in all, about twice as many as at the founding. Corn wouldn't ripen at this height, so the settlers lived on wheat and livestock, watered by a hand-dug ditch running several miles from the slopes of Truchas Peak.
- Altar screens from 1821The village church, Nuestra Señora del Rosario, dates from the early nineteenth century and stands in the center of Truchas. Its two big reredos were painted by the santero Pedro Antonio Fresquis, and one of them is dated 1821.
- Milagro on film in 1988No paved road reached Truchas until the early 1970s, and its unchanged ways drew artists to the village. More came after Robert Redford filmed The Milagro Beanfield War here, released in 1988, and several galleries opened.
Keep exploring New Mexico
Truchas is one of 544 New Mexico towns we've mapped. Every dot on the map is a print of its own.
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The art of mapping a place
How This Map Was Made
Real places. Remarkable detail. Discover the layers that turn geographic data into a map of home.
The view from above
Aerial imagery reveals the character of the land: woodland, open fields, and the patterns of a place.
The shape of the land
Elevation data brings hills, valleys, and subtle changes in the landscape into view.
The details of home
Roads, waterways, and building footprints come together to make the map feel unmistakably local.
Geography becomes art
Considered color, shading, and typography bring the layers together in a map made for your wall.
Process illustrated with Mendon, Massachusetts. Aerial imagery: USDA NAIP. Terrain: USGS 3D Elevation Program. Map details and finished artwork: KNOWOL.
The Details
About This Print
Choose an archival matte print, or a black or white Ayous wood frame. The archival matte print is unframed.
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Materials & Craftsmanship
A contemporary map with the character of a classic atlas, printed on archival matte paper. Optional frames are made from Ayous wood.
Your printed map does not include the watermark shown in the full-map preview.
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