South Mesa

South Mesa is a peak in , and has an elevation of 7,336 feet.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Los Alamos History Museum and Mesa Public Library.

Museum
The is housed in two buildings: the historic Guest Cottage, located next to Fuller Lodge, of , which was General Leslie Groves's favorite place to stay during the Manhattan Project; and the Bethe House a short distance away, where Hans Bethe lived for a brief time after the end of World War II.

Library
Photo: AllenS, Public domain.
is the branch of the Los Alamos County Library System in New Mexico, United States. The library collection has more than 160,000 items which include books, CDs, DVDs, original paintings, and material in several foreign languages.

Aerodrome
Los Alamos Airport, also known as , is a county-owned, public-use in , United States. It is located one nautical mile east of the central business district of .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Los Alamos.

is a small town in , about an hour northwest of . Its claim to fame is the National Laboratory, where Oppenheimer and other physicists created the world's first atomic bomb during World War II, concluding the Golden Age of Modern Physics and heralding the Atomic Age.

South Mesa

Latitude
35.87586° or 35° 52′ 33″ north
Longitude
-106.3092° or 106° 18′ 33″ west
Elevation
7,336 feet (2,236 metres)
Open location code
857MVMGR+88
Open­Street­Map ID
node 357606222
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­peak
Geo­Names ID
5492303
Wiki­data ID
Q49075897
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In Other Languages

“South Mesa” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: South Mesa (bukid sa Estados Unidos, New Mexico, Los Alamos County)
  • Cebuano: South Mesa

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Notable Places Nearby

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