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Website. Valles Caldera National Preserve. The Valles Caldera (or Jemez Caldera) is a 13.7-mile (22.0 km) wide volcanic caldera in the Jemez Mountains of northern New Mexico. [1] Hot springs, streams, fumaroles, natural gas seeps, and volcanic domes dot the caldera landscape. [4]
This is a list of valleys of New Mexico. Valleys are ordered alphabetically, by county. Valleys are ordered alphabetically, by county. This list is incomplete ; you can help by adding missing items .
The Rio Grande Valley is the river valley carved out by the Rio Grande as it flows through the American Southwest and northeastern Mexico, forming a part of the border region. In the US state of New Mexico, the river flows mostly north to south, and forms a valley near Cochiti Pueblo [1] to the state line near El Paso, Texas along the floors of ...
Mesilla Valley. Coordinates: 31°47′25″N 106°25′24″W. The Mesilla Valley as seen from Las Cruces' west mesa. The Organ Mountains tower over the Mesilla Valley (Las Cruces, NM in the foreground). The Mesilla Valley is a geographic feature of Southern New Mexico and far West Texas. It was formed by repeated heavy spring floods of the Rio ...
Taos Valley. Coordinates: 36°22′30.09″N 105°40′17.05″W. Taos Valley mist in the morning, The Rio Pueblo de Taos, New Mexico. Taos Valley, also called Lower Taos Canyon, is a valley located in Taos County, New Mexico. [1] It is bounded by the Rio Grande Gorge; the deep ravine, or Arroyo Hondo, of the Rio Hondo; and the Taos Mountain ...
The park is located in northwestern New Mexico, between Albuquerque and Farmington, in a remote canyon cut by the Chaco Wash. Containing the most sweeping collection of ancient ruins north of Mexico, the park preserves one of the most important pre-Columbian cultural and historical areas in the United States. [2] Between AD 900 and 1150, Chaco ...
The Pueblo peoples occupied several dozen villages, primarily in the Rio Grande valley of northern New Mexico. [18] [19] Spanish explorers and settlers arrived in the 16th century from present-day Mexico. [20] [21] [22] Isolated by its rugged terrain, New Mexico was a peripheral part of the viceroyalty of New Spain dominated by Comancheria.
S. San Luis Valley. San Simon Valley. Spring Canyon (Alamosa Creek) Starvation Draw.