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Shiprock (Navajo: Tsé Bitʼaʼí, "rock with wings" or "winged rock" [4]) is a monadnock rising nearly 1,583 feet (482 m) above the high-desert plain of the Navajo Nation in San Juan County, New Mexico, United States. Its peak elevation is 7,177 feet (2,188 m) above sea level. It is 10.75 miles (17.30 km) southwest of the town of Shiprock ...
35–72770. GNIS feature ID. 2408729 [2] Shiprock (Navajo: Naatʼáanii Nééz) is an unincorporated community on the Navajo reservation in San Juan County, New Mexico, United States. The population was 7,718 people in the 2020 census. For statistical purposes, the United States Census Bureau has defined Shiprock as a census-designated place (CDP).
The San Juan River Bridge at Shiprock, about .5 miles (0.80 km) southwest of Shiprock, New Mexico, is a Parker through truss bridge built in 1937. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997. [1] It is a six-span Parker through truss steel bridge fabricated by W.E. Bondurant.
The San Juan River is a major tributary of the Colorado River in the Southwestern United States, providing the chief drainage for the Four Corners region of Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and Arizona. Originating as snowmelt in the San Juan Mountains (part of the Rocky Mountains) of Colorado, it flows 383 miles (616 km) [2] through the deserts of ...
Agathla Peak is an eroded volcanic plug consisting of volcanic breccia cut by dikes of an unusual igneous rock called minette. It is one of many such volcanic diatremes that are found in Navajo country of northeast Arizona and northwest New Mexico. Agathla Peak and Shiprock in New Mexico are the most prominent.
Shiprock High School. "Once a Chieftain, Always a Chieftain!" Shiprock High School is a public high school in Shiprock, New Mexico (USA). Shiprock High is part of the Central Consolidated School District along with Kirtland Central High School and Newcomb High School. The school colors are crimson, silver, and turquoise, and the school mascot ...
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 .
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