Paso Por Aqui... Zuni, New Mexico (1986)
	Passing by a perennial sink - a water source - in 1709 was Ramon Garcia Jurado, who would later become mayor of the Keres District, south of Santa Fe, New Mexico. This was carved to mark his passage, at the spring that is now on the edges of the Zuni Pueblo in northwest New Mexico. Reliable water sources were relatively few in number, and this was a major draw to travelers of all ilk, and among the remarkable features of this site is the presence of messages left by 1000 years of voyagers and expeditionaries.
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