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Article: Santa Fe visitors find adventure, cultural events.
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- The Boston Herald
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- April 8, 1999
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High adventure and high culture await summer visitors to Santa Fe.
White-water rafting down the Rio Grande and "Carmen" sung under the stars by the world-renowned Santa Fe Opera Company are among the things that make New Mexico vacations so memorable.
Puye Cliff Dwellings, 28 miles northwest of Santa Fe, must be seen. This lofty ruin once housed more than 1,000 Pueblo Indians _ from about 1250 to 1580. The cliff dwellers' modern descendants live at the foot of the cliffs in Santa Clara Pueblo. They say a severe drought forced their ancestors to abandon the once-prosperous farm community whose members carved 740 rooms into ...