[AlmaKing]

The Spanish weren’t in the area 500 years ago.

Maybe 1750s earliest.

[BlueDragon]

Long before 1750's, generally speaking.

http://www.newmexicohistory.org/people/early-spanish-explorers-of-the-southwest

[pepsionice]

1598....earliest noted presence of Spanish guys in New Mexico, with a fort built. They were ‘hiking’ through the area fifty years prior to that.

[Campion]

There’s a church in Santa Fe that was built in 1607.