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The river starts in the Sangre de Cristo mountain range and passes through the state capital, Santa Fe providing approximately 40% of the city's water supply. It is an intermittent stream with two perennial reaches. The river is 46 miles (74 km) long. It was first dammed in 1881 and flows when water is released by the city of Santa Fe from two ...
This article is a list of known military operations of the Vietnam War in 1966, conducted by the armed forces of the Republic of Vietnam, the United States and their allies. 3rd Brigade, 1st Infantry Division search and destroy operation. Follow-up to Operation Crimp. 3rd Battalion, 1st Marines, 2nd Battalion, 4th Marines, 1st Battalion, 7th ...
Location within Vietnam. The Battle of Hill 488 was a military engagement of the Vietnam War that took place on the night of 15–16 June 1966. A small United States Marine Corps (USMC) reconnaissance platoon inflicted large casualties on regular People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) and Viet Cong (VC) fighters before withdrawing with only a few dead.
The Santa Fe River in New Mexico is fed by an extensive network of tributary arroyos; these define much of the landscape of Santa Fe, New Mexico and surrounding areas. [1] Together, the river, arroyos and aquifer they supply through infiltration comprise the Santa Fe River watershed . Besides drainage, the arroyos provide a network of pathways ...
Operation Attleboro was a Vietnam War search and destroy operation initiated by the 196th Light Infantry Brigade with the objective to discover the location (s) of People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) and Viet Cong (VC) base areas and force them to fight. The operation was named after Attleboro, Massachusetts, where the brigade had been formed.
Santa Fe (/ ˌ s æ n t ə ˈ f eɪ, ˈ s æ n t ə f eɪ / SAN-tə FAY, - fay; Spanish:) is the capital of the U.S. state of New Mexico, and the county seat of Santa Fe County.With over 89,000 residents, [5] Santa Fe is the fourth-most populous city in the state, [6] and part of the Albuquerque–Santa Fe–Los Alamos combined statistical area, which had a population of 1,162,523 in 2020.
Santa Fe, New Mexico. Named by. Hayden. Year defined. 1869. The Santa Fe Group is a group of geologic formations in New Mexico and Colorado. It contains fossils characteristic of the Oligocene through Pleistocene epochs. The group consists of basin -filling sedimentary and volcanic rocks of the Rio Grande rift, and contains important regional ...
Santa Fe County (Spanish: Condado de Santa Fe; meaning Holy faith in Spanish) is a county located in the U.S. state of New Mexico. As of the 2020 census, the population was 154,823, [1] making it New Mexico's third-most populous county, after Bernalillo County and Doña Ana County. Its county seat is Santa Fe, [2] the state capital.