Barranca Mesa
Barranca Mesa is a peak in Los Alamos, New Mexico and has an elevation of 7,274 feet.Places of Interest
Highlights include Los Alamos County Airport and Los Alamos History Museum.
Los Alamos County Airport
Aerodrome
Los Alamos Airport, also known as Los Alamos County Airport, is a county-owned, public-use airport in Los Alamos County, New Mexico, United States. It is located one nautical mile east of the central business district of Los Alamos, New Mexico.
Los Alamos History Museum
Museum
Photo: Marcin Wichary, CC BY 2.0.
The Los Alamos History Museum is housed in two buildings: the historic Guest Cottage, located next to Fuller Lodge, of Los Alamos Ranch School, which was General Leslie Groves's favorite place to stay during the Manhattan Project; and the Bethe House a short distance away, where Hans Bethe lived for a brief time after the end of World War II.
Mesa Public Library
Library
Photo: AllenS, Public domain.
Mesa Public Library is the Los Alamos branch of the Los Alamos County Library System in New Mexico, United States. The library collection has more than 160,000 items which include books, CDs, DVDs, original paintings, and material in several foreign languages.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Los Alamos.
Los Alamos
Photo: Dschwen, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Los Alamos is a small town in northern New Mexico, about an hour northwest of Santa Fe. Its claim to fame is the Los Alamos National Laboratory, where Oppenheimer and other physicists created the world's first atomic bomb during World War II, concluding the Golden Age of Modern Physics and heralding the Atomic Age.
Barranca Mesa
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 7,274 feet
- Description: mountain in New Mexico, United States of America
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Los Alamos, New Mexico, Southwest, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
35.90308° or 35° 54′ 11″ northLongitude
-106.28642° or 106° 17′ 11″ westElevation
7,274 feet (2,217 metres)Open location code
857MWP37+6COpenStreetMap ID
node 357615578OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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Satellite Map
Discover Barranca Mesa from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Spanish—“Barranca Mesa” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Barranca Mesa”
- Dutch: “Barranca Mesa”
- Spanish: “Mesa Barranca”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Puye and Totavi.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Barranca Mesa School Playground and Barranca Mesa Pool.
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