Off Pajarito (N105) Road SW

Pajarito is one of the oldest addresses in the Albuquerque area, and it doesn't behave like a normal neighborhood. Anyone looking at Pajarito homes for sale should understand that going in. No gate. No entrance monument. No builder sign at the corner. What you get instead is a piece of the South Valley where the irrigation ditches still run, lots get measured in acres, and the house next door might be a 1950s adobe or something the owner finished last year. It lies southwest of downtown, below Rio Bravo, in unincorporated Bernalillo County. The older valley core along Pajarito Road, Don Felipe and Isleta Blvd carries an 87105 address. Head west, up onto the mesa, and you're into 87121. Both are Pajarito. The land grant came first The Pajarito Land Grant traces to 1746, when Spain still ran New Mexico. It covered roughly 47,000 acres between the Rio Grande and the Rio Puerco, and it was one of the 69 New Mexico grants the United States later confirmed. The plazas and ranchos at Atrisco...