| Hernandez | |
| Settlement Type: | Unincorporated community and CDP |
| Image Alt: | Hernandez in 2006, showing the old church at a similar viewpoint to that used by Ansel Adams in 1941. |
| Pushpin Map: | New Mexico |
| Pushpin Label: | Hernandez |
| Pushpin Map Alt: | Map showing Hernandez's location in New Mexico |
| Coordinates: | 36.0572°N -106.125°W |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: |  United States |
| Subdivision Type1: | State |
| Subdivision Name1: | New Mexico |
| Subdivision Type2: | County |
| Subdivision Name2: | Rio Arriba |
| Unit Pref: | Imperial |
| Area Total Sq Mi: | 1.7 |
| Population As Of: | 2010 |
| Population Total: | 946 |
| Timezone: | Mountain (MST) |
| Utc Offset: | -7 |
| Timezone Dst: | MDT |
| Utc Offset Dst: | -6 |
| Postal Code Type: | ZIP code |
| Postal Code: | 87537 |
| Elevation Ft: | 5719 |
| Blank1 Name: | GNIS feature ID |
| Blank1 Info: | 2584109 |
Hernandez is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Rio Arriba County, New Mexico, United States. Hernandez is approximately 5miles northwest of Española on highway US 84 / US 285.
Within the unincorporated community is the built-up CDP of Hernandez, with an area of 1.7sqmi.[1] The Hernandez CDP had a population of 946 in the 2010 census,[2]
The entire Hernandez area (55sqmi) has the ZIP code 87537,[3] pointing to ZIP Code Tabulation Area 87537 (ZCTA), with a population of 2,957 in the 2010 U.S. census.[4]
The racial makeup of the Hernandez ZCTA was 58.4% White, 0.4% African American, 2.6% Native American, 0.4% Asian, 35.3% from other races, and 2.9% from two or more races.[5] Hispanic or Latino of any race were 88.9% of the population.[5]
It is in Española Public Schools.[6] Hernandez has one elementary school, Hernandez Elementary. The comprehensive public high school is Española Valley High School.
Hernandez became well known as the site of Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico, a black and white photograph taken by Ansel Adams, late in the afternoon on November 1, 1941,[7] from a shoulder of highway US 84 / US 285.[8] The fame of Hernandez grew when an escalation in the market value of photographic works was launched in 1971, when a 1948 print of this image of Hernandez sold at auction "for the then-unheard-of price of $71,500" ($ today), with that same copy selling in 2006 for $609,600 ($ today) at a Sotheby's New York auction.[9]
In 1931, Georgia O'Keeffe visited the community and completed her painting Another Church, Hernandez, New Mexico, showing the front and partial interior of an adobe church in the community.[10]