Southwest
New Mexico
Bernalillo

Tijeras

Tijeras is a village in , United States. The population was 465 at the 2020 census. It is part of the .
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  • 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.

Library
Photo: AllenS, Public domain.

Mountain saddle
Photo: Faolin42, CC BY 3.0.
is a prominent canyon in the central part of the U.S. state of . It separates the subrange to the north from the subrange to the south.

Church
Photo: MRobison, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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.

Photo: osseous, CC BY 2.0.
is a small settlement in , situated on the eastern side of the Sandia Mountains, opposite . Scattered along the base of the mountains alongside the village of Tijeras directly to the south and the tiny settlement…

Hamlet
Photo: Faolin42, CC BY 3.0.
is an unincorporated community in , United States. It lies on NM 333, about eleven miles east of . It is now largely an area of subdivisions. An exit for exists on nearby I-40. is situated 3½ miles northeast of Tijeras.

Hamlet
is an unincorporated community in , , United States. is located along New Mexico State Road 14 13.5 miles east of central . is situated 4 miles north of Tijeras.

Tijeras

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
node 5526587023
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
5494549
Wiki­data ID
Q931463
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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”
  • 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”
  • Volapük: “Tijeras”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Tijeras, New Mexico”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Tijeras”
  • Welsh: “Tijeras, New Mexico”
  • Welsh: “Tijeras”

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Notable Places Nearby

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