Black Point
Black Point is a quarry in Taos, New Mexico and has an elevation of 7,575 feet. Black Point is situated nearby to the village Questa, as well as near the hamlet Cerro.- Type: Quarry
- Description: mine in Taos County, New Mexico, United States of America
- Address: NM
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Questa Solar Facility.
Questa Solar Facility
Power station
The Questa Solar Facility is a 1.17 MWp concentrator photovoltaics power station in Questa, New Mexico. Upon its completion in late 2010, it was one of the largest CPV facilities in the world, and the first utility-scale installation of Concentrix Solar technology in the United States. Questa Solar Facility is situated 2 miles northwest of Black Point.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Questa and Cerro.
Questa
Village
Photo: John Collier Jr., Public domain.
Red River is a small mountain resort town in North Central New Mexico. Tucked into a canyon in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, this former mining town now thrives on tourism as the home of a popular ski resort.
Cerro
Hamlet
Photo: It’sOnlyMakeBelieve, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Cerro is an unincorporated community in Taos County, New Mexico, United States located along New Mexico State Road 378. It was founded in 1854 by settlers from Taos and Questa and was named for Cerro Guadalupe. Cerro is situated 4 miles northwest of Black Point.
Lama Foundation
Hamlet
Lama Foundation is a spiritual community founded in 1967, located in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains of northern New Mexico, seventeen miles north of Taos. The original commune was co-founded by Barbara Durkee, Stephen Durkee, and Jonathan Altman. Lama Foundation is situated 5 miles south of Black Point.
Black Point
- Categories: mine and industry
- Location: Taos, New Mexico, Southwest, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
36.70419° or 36° 42′ 15″ northLongitude
-105.56945° or 105° 34′ 10″ westElevation
7,575 feet (2,309 metres)Open location code
858PPC3J+M6OpenStreetMap ID
node 369158713OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=quarry
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In Other Languages
“Black Point” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Black Point (minahan)”
- Cebuano: “Black Point”
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