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Chaves

Chaves County is a county in , United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 65,157. Its county seat is . Chaves County was named for Colonel Jose Francisco Chaves, a military leader there during the Civil War and later in Navajo campaigns.
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  • Type: County with 65,600 residents
  • Description: county in New Mexico, United States
  • Also known as: “Chaves County”, “Chaves County, New Mexico”, and “Chaves County, NM”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Roswell Industrial Air Center Airport.

Aerodrome
Photo: USGS, Public domain.
Roswell Air Center is an airport five miles south of , in Chaves County, New Mexico, United States.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Mountain View.

Hamlet
is an unincorporated community in Chaves County, , United States. is 3.7 miles south of downtown .

Chaves

Latitude
33.2993° or 33° 17′ 58″ north
Longitude
-104.5133° or 104° 30′ 48″ west
Population
65,600
Elevation
3,547 feet (1,081 metres)
Open location code
855Q7FXP+PM
Open­Street­Map ID
node 316973945
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­county
Geo­Names ID
5461428
Wiki­data ID
Q111245
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Western Panjabi—“Chaves” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Chaves County”
  • Arabic: “مقاطعة شافيز”
  • Arabic: “مقاطعه شافيز، نيومكسيكو”
  • Armenian: “Չավես շրջան”
  • Asturian: “condáu de Chaves”
  • Basque: “Chaves konderria”
  • Bavarian: “Chaves County, New Mexico”
  • Bavarian: “Chaves County”
  • Belarusian: “Чавес”
  • Bishnupriya: “চাভেস কাউন্টি, নিউ মেক্সিকো”
  • Bishnupriya: “চাভেস কাউন্টি”
  • Bulgarian: “Чавес”
  • Catalan: “Chaves County”
  • Catalan: “comtat de Chaves”
  • Cebuano: “Chaves County”
  • Chechen: “Чавес (гуо, Нью-Мексико)”
  • Chechen: “Чавес”
  • Chinese: “Chaves Kūn”
  • Chinese: “查維斯縣”
  • Chinese: “查維斯郡”
  • Chinese: “查维斯县”
  • Chinese: “沙維什縣”
  • Chinese: “沙维什县”
  • Croatian: “Chaves, okrug”
  • Croatian: “Chaves”
  • Croatian: “Okrug Chaves, Novi Meksiko”
  • Dutch: “Chaves County”
  • Esperanto: “Chaves County”
  • Esperanto: “kantono Chaves”
  • Esperanto: “Kantono Chaves”
  • Finnish: “Chavesin piirikunta”
  • French: “Comte de Chaves”
  • French: “comté de Chaves”
  • French: “Comté de Chaves”
  • Georgian: “ჩავესის ოლქი”
  • German: “Chaves County”
  • Gilaki: “چاوز ٚ شأرستان”
  • Greek: “κομητεία Τσάβες”
  • Greek: “Κομητεία Τσάβες”
  • Hebrew: “מחוז צ’אבס”
  • Hungarian: “Chaves megye”
  • Irish: “Contae Chaves”
  • Italian: “contea di Chaves”
  • Italian: “Contea di Chaves”
  • Japanese: “チャベス郡”
  • Korean: “차베스 군”
  • Korean: “차베스군”
  • Low German: “Chaves County”
  • Macedonian: “Чавес”
  • Mazanderani: “چاوز شهرستان”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Chaves Gông”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Chaves Kūn”
  • Navajo: “Tó Áshįįhí Áłtsʼíísí Bił Hahoodzo”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Chaves County”
  • Norwegian: “Chaves County”
  • Persian: “شهرستان چاوز، نیومکزیکو”
  • Persian: “شهرستان چاوز”
  • Polish: “Hrabstwo Chaves”
  • Portuguese: “condado de Chaves”
  • Portuguese: “Condado de Chaves”
  • Romanian: “Comitatul Chaves, New Mexico”
  • Romanian: “Comitatul Chaves”
  • Russian: “Чавес”
  • Sardinian: “contea de Chaves”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Chaves County”
  • Serbian: “Округ Чавес”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Chaves County, New Mexico”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Chaves County”
  • Slovenian: “Chaves County”
  • Slovenian: “Okrožje Chaves”
  • Spanish: “Condado de Chaves (Nuevo México)”
  • Spanish: “condado de Chaves”
  • Spanish: “Condado de Chaves”
  • Swedish: “Chaves County”
  • Tatar: “Чавес (округ, Нью-Мексико)”
  • Tatar: “Чавес”
  • Turkish: “Chaves County, N.Mex.”
  • Turkish: “Chaves County, New Mexico”
  • Turkish: “Chaves County, NM”
  • Turkish: “Chaves County”
  • Turkish: “Chaves ilçesi, N.Mex.”
  • Turkish: “Chaves ilçesi, New Mexico”
  • Turkish: “Chaves ilçesi, NM”
  • Turkish: “Chaves ilçesi”
  • Ukrainian: “Чавес”
  • Urdu: “چیویز کاؤنٹی، نیو میکسیکو”
  • Urdu: “چیویز کاؤنٹی”
  • Venetian: “contea de Chaves”
  • Vietnamese: “Quận Chaves, New Mexico”
  • Vietnamese: “Quận Chaves, Tân Mễ”
  • Vietnamese: “Quận Chaves”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Chaves, New Mexico”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Chaves”
  • Welsh: “Chaves County, Mecsico Newydd”
  • Welsh: “Chaves County”
  • Western Panjabi: “چیوز کاؤنٹی”
  • “Chaves”

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Localities in the Area

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Roswell Airport Terminal and Walker Aviation Museum.

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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 “Chaves”. Photo: AllenS, Public domain.