Garrapata
Garrapata is a quarry in Taos, New Mexico and has an elevation of 8,894 feet. Garrapata is situated nearby to the hamlet Lama Foundation, as well as near San Cristobal.- Type: Quarry
- Description: mine in Taos County, New Mexico, United States of America
- Address: NM
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lama Foundation and San Cristobal.
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.
San Cristobal
Hamlet
Photo: It’sOnlyMakeBelieve, CC BY-SA 4.0.
San Cristobal is a census-designated place in Taos County, New Mexico. Its population was 273 as of the 2010 census, and in the 2020 census the population was 206 persons with a total number of households at 49. San Cristobal is situated 3½ miles southwest of Garrapata.
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. Questa is situated 5 miles north of Garrapata.
Garrapata
- Categories: mine and industry
- Location: Taos, New Mexico, Southwest, United States, North America
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Latitude
36.63197° or 36° 37′ 55″ northLongitude
-105.59556° or 105° 35′ 44″ westElevation
8,894 feet (2,711 metres)Open location code
858PJCJ3+QQOpenStreetMap ID
node 369155655OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=quarry
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In Other Languages
“Garrapata” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Garrapata (minahan sa Estados Unidos)”
- Cebuano: “Garrapata”
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