Big Indian
Big Indian is a 6,120-foot-elevation summit in San Juan County, Utah, United States. Big Indian has an elevation of 5,804 feet.Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 5,804 feet
- Description: butte in San Juan County, Utah, United States
- Also known as: “Big Chief” and “Big Indian Butte”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Sentinel Mesa.
Sentinel Mesa
Peak
Photo: Bgag, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Sentinel Mesa is a 6,450-foot-elevation summit in San Juan County, Utah, United States. It is situated 1+1⁄2 miles north of the Monument Valley visitor center on Navajo Nation land and can be seen from Highway 163.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Monument Valley and Gray Whiskers.
Monument Valley
Monument Valley is perhaps the most famous example of the classic American West landscape. In the Navajo Nation close to the border of Arizona and Utah, the valley has been the backdrop for many movies and advertisements, ranging from Marlboro cigarette ads to the films of John Ford to Back to the Future 3, Forrest Gump and Easy Rider.
Gray Whiskers
Locality
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Gray Whiskers is a 6,385-foot-elevation summit in Navajo County, Arizona, United States.
Oljato-Monument Valley
Village
Oljato-Monument Valley is a census-designated place in Navajo County, Arizona, United States. The population was 154 at the 2010 census. Oljato-Monument Valley is situated 5 miles west of Big Indian.
Big Indian
- Categories: butte and landform
- Location: San Juan, Utah, Southwest, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
37.02043° or 37° 1′ 14″ northLongitude
-110.09253° or 110° 5′ 33″ westElevation
5,804 feet (1,769 metres)Open location code
859F2WC4+5XOpenStreetMap ID
node 356672018OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Dutch—“Big Indian” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Big Indian (bukid)”
- Cebuano: “Big Indian”
- Dutch: “Big Indian”
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Localities in the Area
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