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Shiprock is said to be either a medicine pouch or a bow carried by the "Goods of Value Mountain", a large mythic male figure comprising several mountain features throughout the region. The Chuska Mountains comprise the body, Chuska Peak is the head, the Carrizo Mountains are the legs, and Beautiful Mountain is the feet.
Location of Shiprock, New Mexico. ... Shiprock (Navajo: Naatʼáanii Nééz) is an unincorporated community on the Navajo reservation in San Juan County, ...
The Four Corners Generating Station was constructed on property that was leased from the Navajo Nation in a renegotiated agreement that will expire in 2041. [6] Unit 1 and unit 2 were completed in 1963, unit 3 was completed in 1964, unit 4 was completed in 1969, and unit 5 was completed in 1970.
The largest city served by US 491 is Shiprock, which takes its name from one of several extinct volcano cores in the area. Shiprock is known as "the winged rock" in the Navajo language, and the mountain is considered sacred by the Navajo people. [11] Shiprock is where the US 491 crosses the San Juan River and is briefly concurrent with US 64 ...
Shiprock. San Juan County (Spanish: Condado de San Juan) is a county located in the U.S. state of New Mexico. As of the 2020 census, the population was 121,661 [1] making it the fifth-most populous county in New Mexico. Its county seat is Aztec. [2] The county was created in 1887. [3]
Shiprock (Navajo: Tsé Bitʼaʼí, "rock with wings" ), located in traditional Dinétah territory (northwestern New Mexico). Dinétah is the traditional homeland of the Diné or Navajo, an Indigenous people of the Southwestern United States .
The Navajo Section is located in northeastern Arizona and northwestern New Mexico. It is named for the Navajo Nation , with about half of the area of the section on the Navajo Reservation. The section is characterized by broad rolling plains on easily eroded and carved rocks, with cuestas (ridges) and tablelands capped by gently dipping ...
In 1934, Highway 550 was extended through Farmington to Shiprock, New Mexico. In 1989, the western end of US 550 was replaced with US 64 between Farmington and Shiprock. In 2000, US 550 was extended further south from Aztec to Bernalillo to replace the newly widened NM 44 and NM 544, at which time all of US 550 in New Mexico was four lanes.