Barranca Mesa

Barranca Mesa is a peak in , and has an elevation of 7,274 feet.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Los Alamos County Airport and Los Alamos History Museum.

Aerodrome
Los Alamos Airport, also known as , is a county-owned, public-use in , United States. It is located one nautical mile east of the central business district of .

Museum
The is housed in two buildings: the historic Guest Cottage, located next to Fuller Lodge, of , 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.

Library
Photo: AllenS, Public domain.
is the 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.

is a small town in , about an hour northwest of . Its claim to fame is the 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

Latitude
35.90308° or 35° 54′ 11″ north
Longitude
-106.28642° or 106° 17′ 11″ west
Elevation
7,274 feet (2,217 metres)
Open location code
857MWP37+6C
Open­Street­Map ID
node 357615578
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­peak
Geo­Names ID
5456526
Wiki­data ID
Q49010870
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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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