New Almaden
New Almaden, known in Spanish as Nueva Almadén, is a historic community and former mercury mine in the Capitancillos Hills of San Jose, California, located at the southwestern point of Almaden Valley in South San Jose.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Hamlet
- Description: unincorporated community in Santa Clara County, California
- Also known as: “Almaden”, “New Almaden, CA”, and “New Almaden, California”
- Postal code: 95042
Places of Interest
Highlights include Almaden Reservoir.
Almaden Reservoir
Reservoir
Photo: Jrballe, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Almaden Reservoir is an artificial lake in the hills south of San Jose, California in the United States. It borders on the 4,163-acre Almaden Quicksilver County Park, which provides limited fishing, picnicking, hiking, and horseback riding activities.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Almaden Valley and Mountain Home.
Almaden Valley
Suburb
Photo: EugeneZelenko, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Almaden Valley, commonly known simply as Almaden, is a valley and neighborhood of San Jose, California, located in South San Jose. It is nestled between the Santa Cruz Mountains to the west and the Santa Teresa Hills to the east, bordering the town of Los Gatos and West San Jose neighborhood. Almaden Valley is situated 4 miles northwest of New Almaden.
Mountain Home
Hamlet
Mountain Home, also known as Casa Loma, is a sparsely populated area located on the eastern side of the Santa Cruz Mountains in unincorporated southwest Santa Clara County, California near Mount Chual and Rancho Canada del Oro Open Space Preserves. Mountain Home is situated 4 miles south of New Almaden.
Loma Chiquita
Hamlet
Loma Chiquita is an unincorporated rural area along the ridge leading to Loma Chiquita summit in southwest Santa Clara County, California. The area covers the associated ridgeline and hillsides, from the eastern base of Loma Prieta, towards the west near the intersection with upper Little Uvas Road. Loma Chiquita is situated 5 miles south of New Almaden.
New Almaden
- Categories: unincorporated community in the United States and locality
- Location: Santa Clara County, California, United States, North America
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Latitude
37.17606° or 37° 10′ 34″ northLongitude
-121.82079° or 121° 49′ 15″ westElevation
492 feet (150 metres)Open location code
849W55GH+CMOpenStreetMap ID
node 150978365OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to South Azerbaijani—“New Almaden” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “新阿爾馬登”
- French: “New Almaden”
- Persian: “نیو آلمیدن، کالیفرنیا”
- Persian: “نیو آلمیدن”
- South Azerbaijani: “نیو آلمئیدن، کالیفورنیا”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Hacienda Cemetery and Memorial Park and New Almaden Quicksilver Mining Museum.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “New Almaden”. Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.