Questa
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- Type: Village with 1,900 residents
- Description: village in Taos County, New Mexico, United States
- Also known as: “Questa, New Mexico”, “Questa, NM”, and “San Antonio del Rio Colorado”
- Postal code: 87556
Places of Interest
Highlights include Questa Solar Facility.
Questa Solar Facility
Power station
The Questa Solar Facility is a 1.17 MWp concentrator photovoltaics power station in Questa, New Mexico. Upon its completion in late 2010, it was one of the largest CPV facilities in the world, and the first utility-scale installation of Concentrix Solar technology in the United States.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Cerro and Lama Foundation.
Cerro
Hamlet
Photo: It’sOnlyMakeBelieve, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Cerro is an unincorporated community in Taos County, New Mexico, United States located along New Mexico State Road 378. It was founded in 1854 by settlers from Taos and Questa and was named for Cerro Guadalupe. Cerro is situated 3½ miles north of Questa.
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 4½ miles south of Questa.
Questa
- Categories: village in the United States and locality
- Location: Taos, New Mexico, Southwest, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
36.70422° or 36° 42′ 15″ northLongitude
-105.5949° or 105° 35′ 42″ westPopulation
1,900Elevation
7,461 feet (2,274 metres)Open location code
858PPC34+M2OpenStreetMap ID
node 151945920OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
5485658Wikidata ID
Q2736026
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Questa” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كوييستا”
- Basque: “Questa”
- Catalan: “Questa”
- Cebuano: “Questa”
- Chinese: “Questa”
- Chinese: “奎斯塔 (新墨西哥州)”
- Chinese: “奎斯塔”
- Croatian: “Questa, Novi Meksiko”
- Croatian: “Questa”
- Dutch: “Questa”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كويستا”
- French: “Questa”
- German: “Questa”
- Gilaki: “کوئستا”
- Italian: “Questa”
- Japanese: “ニューメキシコ州”
- Ladin: “Questa”
- Mazanderani: “کوستا (نیومکزیکو)”
- Mazanderani: “کوستا”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Questa”
- Navajo: “Deesbáhí”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Questa (New Mexico)”
- Norwegian: “Questa”
- Persian: “رادیوم اسپرینگز”
- Persian: “کوستا”
- Polish: “Questa”
- Portuguese: “Questa”
- Serbian: “Questa, New Mexico”
- Serbian: “Questa”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Questa, New Mexico”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Questa”
- South Azerbaijani: “کوستا، نیومکزیکو”
- Spanish: “Questa”
- Ukrainian: “Квеста”
- Volapük: “Questa”
- Waray (Philippines): “Questa, New Mexico”
- Waray (Philippines): “Questa”
- Welsh: “Questa, New Mexico”
- Welsh: “Questa”
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Notable Places Nearby
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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 Wikivoyage page “Questa”. Photo: John Collier Jr., Public domain.