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Our greeting cards are 5" x 7" in size and are produced on digital offset printers using 100 lb. paper stock. Each card is coated with a UV protectant on the outside surface which produces a semi-gloss finish. The inside of each card has a matte white finish and can be customized with your own message up to 500 characters in length. Each card comes with a white envelope for mailing or gift giving.
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GRAN QUIViRA
Gran Quivira lies 25 miles south of Mountainair on Route 55.
The Gran Quivira is by the best known of the Spanish pueblo mission churches. It is the largest ruin of any Christian temple existing in the United States.
At Gran Quivira, two missions were constructed high on a barren, winds-swept hill along side the Pueblo de las Humanas. The first church was called San Isidoro and was built in 1629 by Fray Juan Letrado and thirty years later a much larger and more imposing mission was built by Fray Diego de Santander. This church, which was called San Buenaventura , was never finished.
Unlike the missions at Abo and Quarai that were constructed of red sandstone, the pueblo and missions at Gran Quivera were constructed of red sandstone, the missions at Gran Quivera were built using thousands of pieces of carefully fitted limestone bound together with adobe mortar.
Prior to the coming of the Spaniards the Pueblo de las Humanas was an important trade cente...
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