Welcome to MimbrenosThe Mimbres Valley is located in southwestern New Mexico, about seventy miles from Arizona and seventy miles from Mexico. The area is most famous for the pottery designs of the Mimbres Indians that inhabited the area about one thousand years ago. The history page has a brief history of the area and its former and current inhabitants. Our elevation runs between five and six thousand feet above sea level. Cook's Peak (in the banner photo) is 8400 feet. Surrounding mountains that contribute runoff to the Mimbres River stand at over ten thousand feet. The area is called high desert. Nights are cool, even in the summer, days are usually warm, even in the winter. Rainfall averages about fifteen inches per year, and most days are at least partly sunny.Be sure to check out the Mimbres Gallery to see the art and neat stuff we locals craft, photograph, paint, or otherwise have for sale.The services page tells a little bit about who offers what services in the valley.Strangely enough, the images page has pictures of the area. You can also view a slide showLast year, the local fireworks were cancelled due to the extreme drought and fire danger. I put fireworks on this site so we'd have some. I've left them here because they're so cool. Thanks to the guy at 'Time Tripper' for making this javascript available. He's at http://www1.jawink.ne.jp/koji-y/Check out the personal pages, too!Our weather today is:We hope you'll enjoy the site, and come back often. Please send any comments or suggestions to: the Webmaster. Please report any broken links, too. Thank you. |