Jemez Mountains
The Jemez Mountains are a major mountain range in North Central New Mexico in the United States. The range contains several important travel destinations such as Los Alamos, Bandelier National Monument, and part of Santa Fe National Forest.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Los Alamos.
Los Alamos
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Los Alamos is a small town in northern New Mexico, about an hour northwest of Santa Fe. Its claim to fame is the Los Alamos 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.
Jemez Mountains
- Type: Mountain with an elevation of 9,537 feet
- Description: mountain range in Sandoval and Los Alamos counties in New Mexico, United States
- Also known as: “Jemez Mountains (Los Alamos County)”
- Categories: mountain range and landform
- Location: Los Alamos, North Central New Mexico, New Mexico, Southwest, United States, North America
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Venetian—“Jemez Mountains” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Jemez Mountains”
- Czech: “Jemez Mountains”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبال جيميز”
- French: “monts Jemez”
- French: “Monts Jemez”
- Italian: “Monti Jemez”
- Korean: “헤이메즈산”
- Korean: “헤이메즈산맥”
- Ladin: “Jemez Mountains”
- Lombard: “Mont Jemez”
- Navajo: “Aniłtʼánii Dził”
- Navajo: “Dził Łizhinii / Aniłtʼánii Dził”
- Navajo: “Dził Łizhinii/Aniłtʼánii Dził”
- Navajo: “Dził Łizhinii”
- Spanish: “Sierra de Jemez”
- Spanish: “Sierra de Jémez”
- Venetian: “Monti Jemez”
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About Mapcarta. 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 “Jemez Mountains”. Photo: Brian0918, Public domain.