Espanola What appears to outsiders as Espanola actually is an agglomeration of communities-Quartelez, Sombrillo, Santa Cruz, San Pedro, Santo Nino, Riverside, Fairview, and perhaps others. As one native put it, "No one\'s really from from Espanola." Espanola was not listed in Escudero\'s Noticias of 1849, and to this day Tewas know Espanola by a name meaning "new town." An 1882 business directory of NM listed Espanola\'s population as 150 persons, and as late as the 1950s Espanola was officially only the small part of the present community that was on the W side of the Rio Grande, while Riverside and … Continue reading Espanola