ACOMITA

NAME: Acomita
COUNTY: Cibola
ROADS: 2WD
GRID: 4
CLIMATE: Summer it's hot. Winter it's cold.
BEST TIME TO VISIT: Any time
COMMENTS: Acomita. Village on us 66 about 50 miles e of grants
REMAINS: The entire village
Acomita. Settled by the indians of acoma, who have irrigated farms here. The name derives from the spanish diminutive, ita, suffixed to the keres indian word, acoma. It means, therefore, "little acoma" or "little place of the people of the white rock" Submitted by: Samuel W McWhorter

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