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Belen

Belen is a town in , 30 miles south of . Belen was founded in 1740 as a small Spanish settlement. Nearly a century ago the town became the center of railroad operations in New Mexico, creating its nickname "The Hub City".
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  • Type: Town with 7,470 residents
  • Description: city in Valencia County, New Mexico, United States
  • Also known as: “Belem”, “Belen, New Mexico”, “Belen, NM”, “Bethel”, and “Nuestra Senora de Belen *”
  • Postal code: 87002

Places of Interest

Highlights include Belen station and Belen Public Library.

Railway station
Photo: PerryPlanet, Public domain.
Belen is the southern terminus of the New Mexico Rail Runner Express commuter rail line, located in the center of the town of Belen, , near the intersection of Reinken Avenue and Wisconsin Street.

Library
Photo: AllenS, Public domain.

School
is a public high school located in Belen, . Part of Belén Consolidated Schools, it was established in 1916 as the first public high school in Valencia County.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Sausal and Rio Communities.

Hamlet
is a census-designated place in , , United States. Its population was 1,258 as of the 2010 census.

Town
is a city in , , United States. Prior to its incorporation on May 16, 2013, it was a census-designated place. The CDP population was 4,723 as of the 2010 census. is situated 2½ miles east of Belen.

Hamlet
is a census-designated place in , , United States. Its population was 794 as of the 2010 census. New Mexico State Road 116 passes through the community. is situated 2½ miles south of Belen.

Belen

Latitude
34.6628° or 34° 39′ 46″ north
Longitude
-106.7762° or 106° 46′ 34″ west
Population
7,470
Elevation
4,810 feet (1,466 metres)
United Nations Location Code
US BLN
Open location code
856MM67F+4G
Open­Street­Map ID
node 7818432582
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
5456975
Wiki­data ID
Q815390
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Belen” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بيلين”
  • Basque: “Belen”
  • Cebuano: “Belen”
  • Chechen: “Белен”
  • Chinese: “Belen”
  • Chinese: “貝倫”
  • Chinese: “贝伦”
  • Croatian: “Belen, Novi Meksiko”
  • Croatian: “Belen”
  • Dagbani: “Belen”
  • Danish: “Belen”
  • Dutch: “Belen”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بيلين”
  • French: “Belen”
  • German: “Belen”
  • German: “Nuestra Senora de Belen”
  • Gilaki: “بلن”
  • Irish: “Belen”
  • Italian: “Belen”
  • Japanese: “ベーリン”
  • Japanese: “ベレン”
  • Kazakh: “Бэлен”
  • Kirghiz: “Бэлен”
  • Ladin: “Belen”
  • Mazanderani: “بلن (نیومکزیکو)”
  • Mazanderani: “بلن”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Belen”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Belen”
  • Norwegian: “Belen”
  • Persian: “بلن، نیومکزیکو”
  • Persian: “بلن”
  • Polish: “Belen”
  • Portuguese: “Belen (Novo México)”
  • Portuguese: “Belen”
  • Russian: “Белен (город в США)”
  • Russian: “Белен”
  • Serbian: “Белен (Нови Мексико)”
  • Serbian: “Белен”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Belen, New Mexico”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Belen”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بلن، نیومکزیکو”
  • Spanish: “Belén”
  • Tatar: “Белен”
  • Ukrainian: “Белен”
  • Volapük: “Belen (New Mexico)”
  • Volapük: “Belen (NM)”
  • Volapük: “Belen, New Mexico”
  • Volapük: “Belen, NM”
  • Volapük: “Belen”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Belen, New Mexico”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Belen”
  • Welsh: “Belen, New Mexico”
  • Welsh: “Belen”

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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 “Belen”. Photo: AllenS, Public domain.