Taos, NM
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Search the online directory for business listings in Taos, NM and surrounding area.
Number of companies
3,182
Number of categories
917
Taos is a town in Taos County in the north-central region of New Mexico in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. Initially founded in 1615, it was intermittently occupied until its formal establishment in 1795 by Nuevo México Governor Fernando Chacón to act as fortified plaza and trading outpost for the neighboring Native American Taos Pueblo (the town's namesake) and Hispano communities, including Ranchos de Taos, Cañon, Taos Canyon, Ranchitos, El Prado, and Arroyo Seco. The town was incorporated in 1934. As of the 2010 census, its population was 5,716.
Taos is the county seat of Taos County. The English name Taos derives from the native Taos language meaning "(place of) red willows".
Taos is the principal town of the Taos, NM, Micropolitan Statistical Area, which includes all of Taos County.
