Peña Blanca
Peña Blanca is a census-designated place in Sandoval County, New Mexico. As of the 2000 census, the CDP population was 661. It is part of the Albuquerque Metropolitan Statistical Area. Peña Blanca's name is derived from the Spanish term for "white rock".| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Hamlet with 624 residents
- Description: census-designated place in Sandoval County, New Mexico, United States
- Also known as: “El Rancho de Jose Miguel de la Pena *”, “El Rancho de la Peña Blanca”, “Kweshtaeha’ashteta *”, “Pena Blanca, New Mexico”, “Peña Blanca, New Mexico”, “Peña Blanca, NM”, and “Penablanca”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Santo Domingo Pueblo and La Bajada.
Santo Domingo Pueblo
Village
Photo: Davidhc9, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Santo Domingo Pueblo, also known as Kewa Pueblo is a federally recognized tribe of Pueblo people in northern New Mexico. A population of 2,456 live in structures some of which date from circa 1700; in Sandoval County described by the U.S. Census Bureau as a census-designated place. Santo Domingo Pueblo is situated 4 miles south of Peña Blanca.
La Bajada
Hamlet
La Bajada is a census-designated place in Santa Fe County, New Mexico, United States. It is named after a geographical feature of the nearby Caja del Rio. La Bajada is situated 6 miles east of Peña Blanca.
Peña Blanca
Latitude
35.57086° or 35° 34′ 15″ northLongitude
-106.33819° or 106° 20′ 18″ westPopulation
624Elevation
5,236 feet (1,596 metres)Open location code
857MHMC6+8POpenStreetMap ID
node 151350580OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamletGeoNames ID
5483779Wikidata ID
Q3323874
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Volapük—“Peña Blanca” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بينيا بيانكا”
- Catalan: “Pena Blanca”
- Cebuano: “Peña Blanca”
- Chechen: “Пенья-Бланка”
- Chinese: “Pena Blanca”
- Chinese: “佩尼亞布蘭卡 (新墨西哥州)”
- Chinese: “佩尼亞布蘭卡”
- Croatian: “Peña Blanca, Novi Meksiko”
- Croatian: “Pena Blanca”
- Dutch: “Pena Blanca”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بينيا بيانكا”
- French: “Pena Blanca”
- German: “Pena Blanca”
- Gilaki: “پینا بلانکا”
- Hungarian: “Pena Blanca”
- Irish: “Peña Blanca”
- Italian: “Pena Blanca”
- Italian: “Peña Blanca”
- Japanese: “ペニャブランカ”
- Ladin: “Peña Blanca”
- Ladin: “Peña Blanca”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Pena Blanca”
- Navajo: “Tséłgaii”
- Persian: “پنیا بلانکا، نیومکزیکو”
- Persian: “پنیا بلانکا”
- Polish: “Peña Blanca”
- Portuguese: “Pena Blanca”
- Serbian: “Peña Blanca, New Mexico”
- Serbian: “Peña Blanca”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Peña Blanca, New Mexico”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Peña Blanca”
- South Azerbaijani: “پنیا بلانکا، نیومکزیکو”
- Spanish: “Peña Blanca”
- Swedish: “Peña Blanca”
- Tatar: “Пенья-Бланка”
- Ukrainian: “Пенья-Бланка”
- Volapük: “Pena Blanca, New Mexico”
- Volapük: “Pena Blanca”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
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