Truchas is a small, remote village that straddles a high ridge in the Sangres de Cristo mountains. The community began as a Spanish land grant in 1754, the Nuestra Señora del Rosario, San Fernando y Santiago del Rio de las Truchas Grant. Nuestra Señora del Rosario is also the name of the early 19th-century church in the center of the village. The land grant is commonly known as the Truchas Land Grant. Truchas is the Spanish word for trout. The name is based on the river that provides the water f