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505. FIPS code. 35-27970. GNIS feature ID. 2408272 [2] Galisteo is a census-designated place (CDP) in Santa Fe County, New Mexico, United States. It is part of the Santa Fe, New Mexico Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 253 at the 2010 census.
Galisteo Basin. Coordinates: 35°27′32″N 105°58′12″W. The Galisteo Basin is a surface basin and a closely related groundwater basin in north-central New Mexico. Its primary watercourse is the Galisteo River or Galisteo Creek, a perennial stream, for part of its course, that flows from the eastern highlands down into the Rio Grande ...
San Lazaro is an archaeological site of pueblos in the U.S. state of New Mexico. Located in the basin of the Galisteo River south of Santa Fe, it was home to a clan of the Tanoan peoples at the time of Spanish colonial contact in the 16th century. It was abandoned in the aftermath of the Spanish reconquest of the area after the 1680 Pueblo ...
Cerro Pelon Ranch (originally called the Cook Ranch, and later the Cook Movie Ranch) is a large ranch estate in Santa Fe County, New Mexico. About thirty Hollywood productions have been filmed there, including Silverado, Lonesome Dove, Wild Wild West, 3:10 to Yuma, and Thor. The film set originally constructed on the property for Silverado has ...
The Galisteo Formation is primarily fluvial sandstone and mudstone, with small amounts of conglomerate, freshwater limestone, and sedimentary tuff. It crops out over a limited area between Sandia Crest and the southern Sangre de Cristo Mountains, with an outlier at the eastern feet of the San Miguel subrange of the Jemez Mountains.
Total capacity. 152,600 acre-feet. Galisteo Dam (National ID # NM00002) is a dam in Santa Fe County, New Mexico . The earthen dam was constructed in 1970 by the United States Army Corps of Engineers with a height of 164 feet (50 m) and 2,820 feet (860 m) long at its crest. [1] Built solely for flood control and sediment impoundment on Galisteo ...
The Spanish Missions in New Mexico were a series of religious outposts in the Province of Santa Fe de Nuevo México — present day New Mexico.They were established by Franciscan friars under charter from the monarchs of the Spanish Empire and the government of the Viceroyalty of New Spain in a policy called Reductions to facilitate the conversion of Native Americans into Christianity.
In 1912 they began work in New Mexico's Galisteo Basin, south of Santa Fe. [2] Nelson pioneered the technique of stratigraphic excavation in America. During his work in the Galisteo Basin, he dug a series of 1-foot levels in trash mounds at archeological sites, classified all the pot shards he found into seven types, and calculated their ...