Tijeras
Tijeras is a village in Bernalillo County, New Mexico, United States. The population was 465 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Albuquerque metropolitan area.- Type: Village with 543 residents
- Description: village in Bernalillo County, New Mexico, United States
- Also known as: “Tijeras, New Mexico” and “Tijeras, NM”
- Postal code: 87059
Places of Interest
Highlights include East Mountain Library and Tijeras Canyon.
Tijeras Canyon
Mountain saddle
Tijeras Canyon is a prominent canyon in the central part of the U.S. state of New Mexico. It separates the Sandia Mountains subrange to the north from the Manzano Mountains subrange to the south.
Holy Child Church
Church
Holy Child Church is a historic church off I-40 in Tijeras, New Mexico. It was built in 1912 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Cedar Crest and Zuzax.
Cedar Crest
Cedar Crest is a small settlement in Central New Mexico, situated on the eastern side of the Sandia Mountains, opposite Albuquerque. Scattered along the base of the mountains alongside the village of Tijeras directly to the south and the tiny settlement…Zuzax
Hamlet
Zuzax is an unincorporated community in Bernalillo County, New Mexico, United States. It lies on NM 333, about eleven miles east of Albuquerque. It is now largely an area of subdivisions. An exit for Zuzax exists on nearby I-40. Zuzax is situated 3½ miles northeast of Tijeras.
Cañoncito
Hamlet
Cañoncito is an unincorporated community in Bernalillo County, New Mexico, United States. Cañoncito is located along New Mexico State Road 14 13.5 miles east of central Albuquerque. Cañoncito is situated 4 miles north of Tijeras.
Tijeras
- Categories: village in the United States and locality
- Location: Bernalillo, New Mexico, Southwest, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
35.07964° or 35° 4′ 47″ north
Longitude
-106.38794° or 106° 23′ 17″ west
Population
543
Elevation
6,322 feet (1,927 metres)
United Nations Location Code
US TIJ
Open location code
857M3JH6+VR
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Tijeras” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “تيجيراس”
- Basque: “Tijeras”
- Catalan: “Tijeras”
- Cebuano: “Tijeras”
- Chinese: “Tijeras”
- Chinese: “蒂赫拉斯 (新墨西哥州)”
- Chinese: “蒂赫拉斯”
- Croatian: “Tijeras, Novi Meksiko”
- Croatian: “Tijeras”
- Danish: “Tijeras”
- Dutch: “Tijeras”
- Egyptian Arabic: “تيجيراس”
- French: “Tijeras”
- German: “Tijeras”
- Gilaki: “تجیراس”
- Italian: “Tijeras”
- Japanese: “ティヘラス”
- Ladin: “Tijeras”
- Mazanderani: “تیهراس (نیومکزیکو)”
- Mazanderani: “تیهراس”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Tijeras”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tijeras”
- Norwegian: “Tijeras”
- Persian: “تی هراس”
- Persian: “تیهراس”
- Polish: “Tijeras”
- Portuguese: “Tijeras”
- Serbian: “Тајерас”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Tijeras, New Mexico”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Tijeras”
- South Azerbaijani: “تی هراس، نیومکزیکو”
- Spanish: “Tijeras”
- Ukrainian: “Тіхерас”
- Urdu: “ٹیجیراس، نیو میکسیکو”
- Volapük: “Tijeras”
- Waray (Philippines): “Tijeras, New Mexico”
- Waray (Philippines): “Tijeras”
- Welsh: “Tijeras, New Mexico”
- Welsh: “Tijeras”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include First Baptist Church of Tijeras and Tijeras Post Office.
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