Guadalupe Placer

Guadalupe Placer is a quarry in Taos, New Mexico and has an elevation of 7,195 feet. Guadalupe Placer is situated nearby to the village Questa, as well as near the hamlet Lama Foundation.

Type: Quarry
Description: mine in Taos County, New Mexico, United States of America
Address: NM

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Rio Grande del Norte National Monument and Questa.

Rio Grande del Norte National Monument

Photo: Dschwen, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Rio Grande del Norte National Monument is a United States national monument in North Central New Mexico, west of the town of Taos. The monument covers a long and spectacular stretch of gorge, sometimes 800 feet deep, carved by the Rio Grande through the Taos Plateau that is popular with hikers, whitewater rafters, and sightseers.

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 3½ miles northeast of Guadalupe Placer.

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. Lama Foundation is situated 4 miles southeast of Guadalupe Placer.

Guadalupe Placer

Categories: mine and industry
Location: Taos, New Mexico, Southwest, United States, North America
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Latitude

36.68225° or 36° 40′ 56″ north

Longitude

-105.64779° or 105° 38′ 52″ west

Elevation

7,195 feet (2,193 metres)

Open location code

858PM9J2+VV

OpenStreetMap ID

node 369156167

OpenStreetMap feature

landuse=quarry

GeoNames ID

5470216

Wikidata ID

Q49416884

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In Other Languages

“Guadalupe Placer” goes by many names.

Cebuano: “Guadalupe Placer”

Localities in the Area

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