Capitan Mountains
The Capitan Mountains are a mountain range in Lincoln County, in south-central New Mexico in the southwestern United States. The range is about 20 miles long from east to west being about 6 miles wide and were formed from a large elongated granite intrusion similar to the round one that produced Carrizo Mountain to the west.
Corsair1944, Public domain.- Mountain rising to 10,171 feet (3,100 metres)
- …is also known as “Sacramento Mountains”
- Description: mountain range in New Mexico, United States
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Latitude
33.60675° or 33° 36′ 24″ north
Longitude
-105.3636° or 105° 21′ 49″ west
Open location code
855PJJ4P+PH
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Venetian—“Capitan Mountains” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Capitan Mountains”
- Chinese: “卡皮坦山脉”
- Chinese: “卡皮坦山脈”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبال كابيتان”
- French: “Monts Capitan”
- Japanese: “キャピタン山地”
- Ladin: “Capitan Mountains”
- Slovenian: “Capitan Mountains”
- Spanish: “Sierra del Capitán”
- Swedish: “Capitan Mountains”
- Venetian: “Siera del Capitán”
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