Tijeras is a village in Bernalillo County, New Mexico, United States. The population was 541 at the 2010 census. It is allowance of the Albuquerque metropolitan area.

The Tijeras Pueblo Archaeological Site is located in Tijeras at 35° 04′ 30″ N, 106° 23′ 01.″ The site was occupied by Ancestral Pueblo people from practically 1313 CE to 1425 CE. In the first phase of its pursuit the Tijeras Pueblo had roughly 200 rooms in terraced buildings contracted in a “U” shape like a large ceremonial Kiva at the center. The pueblo was partially single-handedly after not quite 1360 but rebuilding began virtually 1390, although the pueblo never regained its previous size. It was abandoned practically 1425. The reasons for the resignation of the pueblo are unknown, although it may have been because of drought and water shortages.

The Tijeras Pueblo Archaeological Site is way in to visitors. A museum upon the site is admission weekends and a self-guiding trail winds through the ruins.

Tijeras was share of the Carnuel estate grant, created in 1763 to defend Albuquerque from the raids of Comanche, Kiowa, and Plains Apache American Indians. The village is located in Tijeras Canyon, a strategic and natural corridor together with the nomadic Indians of the Great Plains and the Spanish settlements in the Rio Grande valley. Nineteen men some similar to families, comprised the first settlers at Carnuel. They were mostly from the belittle castas of Spanish society, “coyotes” and genizaros (Indians who lived in the middle of the Spanish and had adopted some elements of Hispanic culture). For the coyotes and genizaros the empathy to concur in the Tijeras Place was the opportunity to own house through the land comply from the New Mexican government.