Cañoncito
Cañoncito is an unincorporated community in Rio Arriba County, New Mexico, United States. Cañoncito is located on Embudo Creek, 3.4 miles east-southeast of Dixon.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Hamlet
- Description: human settlement in Rio Arriba County, New Mexico, United States
- Also known as: “Canoncito”, “Cañoncito, NM”, and “Cañoncito, Rio Arriba County, New Mexico”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Harding Pegmatite Mine.
Harding Pegmatite Mine
Monument
Photo: Kent G. Budge, CC0.
The Harding Pegmatite Mine is a former adit mine that extracted lithium, tantalum, and beryllium from a Precambrian pegmatite sill. It ceased operations in 1958 and its owner, Arthur Montgomery, donated it to the University of New Mexico, which runs the site as an outdoor geology laboratory with mineral collecting permitted on a small scale. Harding Pegmatite Mine is situated 2½ miles east of Cañoncito.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Dixon and Ojo Sarco.
Dixon
Hamlet
Photo: Carptrash, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Dixon is an unincorporated community located in Rio Arriba County, New Mexico, United States, on New Mexico State Road 75, just east of New Mexico State Road 68, in the north-central part of the state, and is approximately 20 miles southwest of Taos. Dixon is situated 3½ miles west of Cañoncito.
Ojo Sarco
Hamlet
Ojo Sarco is an unincorporated community located in Rio Arriba County, New Mexico, United States. Ojo Sarco is located in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, 1 mile from New Mexico State Road 76 and 1.5 miles west-southwest of Las Trampas. Ojo Sarco is situated 5 miles southeast of Cañoncito.
Trampas
Hamlet
Photo: Elisa.rolle, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Las Trampas or just Trampas, is an unincorporated hamlet in Taos County, New Mexico. Founded in 1751 to settle the Las Trampas Land Grant, its center retains the original early Spanish colonial defensive layout as well as the 18th-century San José de Gracia Church, one of the finest surviving examples of Spanish colonial church architecture in the United States. Trampas is situated 5 miles southeast of Cañoncito.
Cañoncito
- Categories: unincorporated community in the United States and locality
- Location: Rio Arriba, New Mexico, Southwest, United States, North America
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Latitude
36.18086° or 36° 10′ 51″ northLongitude
-105.83224° or 105° 49′ 56″ westElevation
6,240 feet (1,902 metres)Open location code
858P55J9+84OpenStreetMap ID
node 151711947OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Persian—“Cañoncito” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “坎農西托 (新墨西哥州里奧阿里巴縣)”
- Chinese: “坎農西托”
- French: “Cañoncito”
- Irish: “Cañoncito”
- Italian: “Cañoncito”
- Persian: “کانوسیتو، شهرستان ریو آریبا، نیومکزیکو”
- Persian: “کانوسیتو”
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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 “Cañoncito”. Photo: Dschwen, CC BY-SA 3.0.