Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Baca land grants are five areas of nearly 100,000 acres (40,000 ha) each located in New Mexico, Arizona, and Colorado.Each area is called a "float." They were created in 1860 by the U.S. government to compensate the Baca family for a ruling by the U.S. that invalidated the Hispanic family's ownership of a large area of land near Las Vegas, New Mexico.
The center of the area is approximately 15 miles (23 km) west of Santa Fe, New Mexico. Most of the Caja is owned by the United States Forest Service and managed by the Santa Fe National Forest . Access is through New Mexico Highway 599, Santa Fe County Road 62, and Forest Service Road 24.
The lower Santa Fe group was created by dune fields and small streams draining into playa lakes and mud flats. The sediments in this group yield low volumes of poor quality water. Deposits in the upper Santa Fe group come from drainage of the ancestral Rio Grande and the tributaries of that river. Although a small part of the total, most of the ...
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 about three miles above the Santo Domingo Pueblo.
The Old Spanish Trail (Spanish: Viejo Sendero Español) is a historical trade route that connected the northern New Mexico settlements of (or near) Santa Fe, New Mexico with those of Los Angeles, California and southern California. Approximately 700 mi (1,100 km) long, the trail ran through areas of high mountains, arid deserts, and deep canyons.
The La Cieneguilla Petroglyphs are a rock art site near Santa Fe, New Mexico. It is a mesa above the Sante Fe River containing thousands of petroglyphs. Followers of the Camino Real de Tierra Adentro also pass this site. [2]
The pool in Devils Hole, home to the endangered pupfish, saw waves erupt up to 4 feet high after a 7.6-magnitude earthquake hit near Mexico on Monday. Mexico earthquake triggers 'desert tsunami ...
The Santa Fe Group is a group of geologic formations in New Mexico and Colorado. It contains fossils characteristic of the Oligocene through Pleistocene epochs . The group consists of basin -filling sedimentary and volcanic rocks of the Rio Grande rift , and contains important regional aquifers .