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Los Alamos: 1839 Juan Alvarado: Jose Antonio de la Guerra: 48,803 acres (19,750 ha) 83 SD Los Alamos: Santa Barbara: Santa Cruz Island: 1839 Juan Alvarado: Andrés Castillero 52,760 acres (21,351 ha) 340 SD Santa Cruz Island: Santa Barbara: Rinconada de Los Gatos: 1839 Juan Alvarado: Jose Maria Hernandez and Sebastian Fabian Peralta: 6,631 ...
Los Alamos is a Spanish place name that typically refers to poplar or cottonwood trees.Alternatively, Los Alamos could refer to the large groves of quaking aspen that intersperse the coniferous forest on the mountainsides above the townsite, where they are distinctly visible during the autumn months due to their spectacular autumn colors.
Westbound in Pojoqaue. New Mexico State Road 502 (NM 502) is a 18.301-mile-long (29.453 km) state highway in New Mexico, United States of America.It is notable as the main access route to Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Bandelier National Monument, Valles Caldera National Preserve, Jemez Mountains, and town of Los Alamos.
The Pueblo was established around 1300 AD [14] and founded by people who had migrated from the Mesa Verde complex in Southern Colorado, by way of Bandelier (elevation about 7000 feet), just south of present-day Los Alamos, New Mexico. People thrived at Bandelier due to the rainfall and the ease of constructing living structures from the ...
Los Alamos County (English: "The Poplars" or "Cottonwoods"; Spanish: Condado de Los Álamos) is a county in the U.S. state of New Mexico. As of the 2020 census , the population was 19,419. [ 1 ] The smallest county by area in the state, Los Alamos County was formerly administered exclusively by the U.S. federal government during the Manhattan ...
[3] 1842 is the same year that Víctor Pantaleón Linares, the original grantee of Rancho Tinaquaic, was granted Rancho Cañada de los Osos nearby San Luis Obispo where Linares had moved in 1839 and settled in the town as the Mission majordomo and alférez in the local militia. [1]: 683, n.9 [5]: 13, n.17
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New Mexico has been a science and technology hub since at least the mid-20th century, following heavy federal government investment during the Second World War. Los Alamos was the site of Project Y, the laboratory responsible for designing and developing the world's first atomic bomb for the Manhattan Project.