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Las Barrancas
This was an estancia located between Sevilleta and Isleta on the east side of the Río Grande where Otermín camped the night of 5 December 1681 before attacking Isleta on the sixth (Hackett 1915:383). It was reported to be 23 leagues north of Senecú and 10 170 leagues south of Isleta (Hackett and Shelby 1942:II, 213).
Vargas went slightly more than three leagues north from the hacienda of Felipe Romero to Las Barrancas, the hacienda of Francisco Gómez, on 5 September 1692. It was about five leagues south of the hacienda of Tomé Domínguez (Kessell and Hendricks 1992:375). The place name “la Barrancas” appears in the 1778 map drawn by Edward Ruggles, Jr., a Connecticut map-maker, from information on other existing maps (Wheat 1959:I, 149, plate 214).
The State of New Mexico placed a marker commemorating Las Barrancas alongside New Mexico Highway 47 just south of the A.T.& S.F. railroad tracks.
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