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Capitan

Capitan is a village in , , United States, located north of the between the and at an elevation of 6,350 feet.
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  • Type: Village with 1,550 residents
  • Description: village in Lincoln County, New Mexico, United States
  • Also known as: “Capitan, New Mexico”, “Capitan, NM”, and “Gray”
  • Postal code: 88316

Places of Interest

Highlights include Capitan High School.

School
is a public high school located in Capitan, New Mexico, United States. The school has an enrollment of approximately 150 students in grades 9–12. Athletic teams are known as the Fighting Tigers and the school colors are orange and black.

Capitan

Latitude
33.54538° or 33° 32′ 43″ north
Longitude
-105.57209° or 105° 34′ 20″ west
Population
1,550
Elevation
6,348 feet (1,935 metres)
Open location code
855PGCWH+55
Open­Street­Map ID
node 151540455
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
5460322
Wiki­data ID
Q1034678
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Capitan” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “كابيتان”
  • Basque: “Capitan”
  • Catalan: “Capitan”
  • Cebuano: “Capitan”
  • Chinese: “Capitan”
  • Chinese: “卡皮坦 (新墨西哥州)”
  • Chinese: “卡皮坦”
  • Croatian: “Capitan, Novi Meksiko”
  • Croatian: “Capitan”
  • Dutch: “Capitan (New Mexico)”
  • Dutch: “Capitan”
  • French: “Capitan”
  • German: “Capitan”
  • Gilaki: “کاپیتان”
  • Italian: “Capitan”
  • Japanese: “キャピタン”
  • Ladin: “Capitan”
  • Mazanderani: “کاپیتان (نیومکزیکو)”
  • Mazanderani: “کاپیتان”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Capitan”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Capitan (New Mexico)”
  • Norwegian: “Capitan”
  • Persian: “ال کپیتن”
  • Persian: “کاپیتان”
  • Polish: “Capitan”
  • Portuguese: “Capitan”
  • Russian: “Капитан (Нью-Мексико)”
  • Russian: “Капитан”
  • Serbian: “Капитан (Нови Мексико)”
  • Serbian: “Капитан”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Capitan, New Mexico”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Capitan”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ال کپیتن، نیومکزیکو”
  • Spanish: “Capitán”
  • Swedish: “Capitan”
  • Ukrainian: “Кепітан”
  • Vietnamese: “Capitan, New Mexico”
  • Vietnamese: “Capitan”
  • Volapük: “Capitan (New Mexico)”
  • Volapük: “Capitan (NM)”
  • Volapük: “Capitan, New Mexico”
  • Volapük: “Capitan, NM”
  • Volapük: “Capitan”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Capitan, New Mexico”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Capitan”
  • Welsh: “Capitan, New Mexico”
  • Welsh: “Capitan”

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Highlights include Capitan Historical Marker and Capitan Post Office.

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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 “Capitan”. Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.