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El Malpais ('the badlands') is Spanish, pronounced Mal-(rhymes with wall)-pie-ees(rhymes with rice). The El Malpais National Conservation Area was established to protect nationally significant geological, archaeological, ecological, cultural, scenic, scientific, and wilderness resources surrounding the Grants Lava Flows.
El Malpais National Conservation Area: La Ventana Natural Arch. The U.S. National Park Service protects, manages, and interprets El Malpais National Monument. El Malpais Visitor Center (formerly The Northwest New Mexico Visitor Center) is just south of Exit 85 off I-40 in Grants, New Mexico. [12]
The community of Las Trampas, New Mexico was founded the same year. The grant consisted of 28,132 acres (11,385 ha) of land on the western slopes of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. The settlers served as a buffer on the frontiers of New Mexico to fend off Comanche raids. By the mid 19th century the population of the grant area had grown to ...
The Maxwell Land grant has an area of 1,714,765 acres (6,939.41 km 2) in New Mexico and southern Colorado.The grant lands measure almost 60 miles (97 km) from north to south and 50 miles (80 km) from east to west, reaching from the Great Plains to the crest of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains.
Zuni-Bandera volcanic field (also known as Bandera lava field, Grants Malpais and Malpais volcanic field) is a volcanic field located in the state of New Mexico, United States. [1] The volcanic field has been considered for geothermal exploitation. [2] It is on the Trails of the Ancients Byway, one of the designated New Mexico Scenic Byways. [3]
The San Miguel del Vado Land Grant (also known as the San Miguel del Bado Land Grant) is one of the Spanish land grants in New Mexico.On November 24, 1794, 53 men submitted a petition for land and were granted temporary possession on November 24, 1794, pending satisfaction of prescribed criteria.
This is a list of Superfund sites in New Mexico designated under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) environmental law. The CERCLA federal law of 1980 authorized the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to create a list of polluted locations requiring a long-term response to clean up hazardous material contaminations. [1]
The Luis Maria Baca Grant No. 4, south of Crestone, Colorado, was a large land grant made in 1860 by the United States to the heirs of the original Vegas Grandes Grant to the Baca family of New Mexico in Las Vegas, New Mexico. [1] [2] [3] Title to the grant in Las Vegas was clouded by a second grant of the same land. [3]