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The San Juan Mountains is a high and rugged mountain range in the Rocky Mountains in southwestern Colorado and northwestern New Mexico. The area is highly mineralized (the Colorado Mineral Belt ) and figured in the gold and silver mining industry of early Colorado.
The Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wilderness is a 45,000-acre (18,000 ha) wilderness area located in San Juan County in the U.S. state of New Mexico. Established in 1984, the Wilderness is a desolate area of steeply eroded badlands managed by the Bureau of Land Management, except three parcels of private Navajo land within its boundaries. [1]
Ah-Shi-Sle-Pah Wilderness is located in San Juan County, New Mexico, between Chaco Canyon and the De-Na-Zin Wilderness.Its name is a phonetic transliteration of Navajo "áshįįh łibá" meaning "salt, it is grey (grey salt)".
The official route of the CDT in New Mexico is 794.5 miles (1,278.6 km) long, [1] although many alternate routes shorten or lengthen that distance. The lowest elevation of the trail in New Mexico is 4,189 feet (1,277 m) in the town of Lordsburg [24] and the highest elevation in New Mexico is 11,301 feet (3,445 m) at the summit of Mount Taylor ...
The Tusas Mountains are a mountain range in northern New Mexico, extending slightly into southern Colorado. They are considered the southeasternmost part of the San Juan Mountains. [1] Grouse Mesa, 11,407 feet (3,477 m), [3] is the highest peak in the range. [1] The mountains are located to the west of Taos and northwest of Santa Fe. The Tusas ...
San Juan or San Juan Pueblo [1] is a census-designated place (CDP) in Rio Arriba County, New Mexico, United States. The population was 592 at the 2000 census . Geography
Navajo Dam is a dam on the San Juan River, a tributary of the Colorado River, in northwestern New Mexico in the United States. The 402-foot (123 m) high earthen dam is situated in the foothills of the San Juan Mountains about 44 miles (71 km) upstream and east of Farmington, New Mexico. [3]
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in San Juan County, New Mexico, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many National Register properties and districts; these locations may be seen together in a map. [1]