Corrales is a village in Sandoval County, New Mexico, United States. First farmed by Tiquex Pueblo people, chosen due to its proximity to the Rio Grande, as documented by Hispano farmers of Nuevo México in the late 1500s. Despite swine a share of the Albuquerque metropolitan area, the village maintains its rural character, while along with being surrounded by the cities of Albuquerque and Rio Rancho. The population of Corrales was 8,329 at the 2010 Census.

The Rio Grande Bosque upon the eastern edge of the village provides refuge for native animals and plants, and ancient Pueblo and Hispano acequias continue to be maintained by the United States Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service and the Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District.

The village of Corrales (Spanish for “corrals”) is located along the Rio Grande river and is built on the site of two Indian Pueblos settled in the past AD 500 by the Tiguex Indians, and which were far ahead occupied by Spanish Colonists and explorers who colonized the region a propos 1540. The Spanish Colonists subsequent to built an adobe church on the site called the Church of San Ysidro in 1868, named after the annual fiesta de San Ysidro in May.

In 1710, a take over of the Alameda lands (including Corrales) was utter to Corporal Francisco Montes Vigil, A soldier in the Spanish army. Vigil sold it in 1712 to Captain Juan Gonzáles Bas who was next living in Bernalillo. Gonzáles gone sold the land comprising the Village of Corrales in 1718 to Salvador Martinez. Over time, the home comprising the Village of Corrales was parceled off and sold for agricultural move on and livestock ranching. The current Village of Corrales admin was incorporated and chartered in 1971.