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Taos

Taos

Taos is a prominent town of 6,000 people in . While much more laid-back than Santa Fe, Taos has become a popular travel destination in its own right, noted for its art colony, its New Age community, excellent skiing, and Taos Pueblo, a photogenic American Indian community that is open to visitors under controlled conditions.
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  • Type: City with 6,470 residents
  • Description: town in and county sear of Taos County, New Mexico, United States
  • Also known as: “Taos, New Mexico” and “Taos, NM”
  • Postal code: 87571
  • Neighbors:
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Harwood Museum of Art and Taos Art Museum.

Museum
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The is located in Taos, New Mexico. Founded in 1923 by the Harwood Foundation, it is the second oldest art museum in New Mexico. Its collections include a wide range of Hispanic works and visual arts from the Taos Society of Artists, Taos Moderns, and contemporary artists.

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The is an art museum located in Taos, New Mexico in the Nicolai Fechin House. This was the home of Russian artist Nicolai Fechin, his wife Alexandra, and daughter Eya.

Museum
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The is a historic house museum at 113 Kit Carson Road in central Taos, New Mexico. Built in 1825, it was from 1843 until his death the home of frontiersman Kit Carson.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include El Prado and Taos Pueblo.

Hamlet
is an unincorporated suburb and census designated place on the north side of Taos, in , , United States. It is generally bounded on the south by the town of Taos, to the east by lands, to the north by and , and to the west by the Rio Grande Gorge.

Village
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is a census-designated place in , , United States, just north of Taos. The population was 1,264 at the 2000 census.

Taos

Latitude
36.4072° or 36° 24′ 26″ north
Longitude
-105.5733° or 105° 34′ 24″ west
Population
6,470
Elevation
6,969 feet (2,124 metres)
IATA airport code
TSM
Open location code
858PCC4G+VM
Open­Street­Map ID
node 151741359
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
5493811
Wiki­data ID
Q876315
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Welsh—“Taos” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Taos, New Mexico”
  • Albanian: “Taos”
  • Arabic: “تاوس”
  • Basque: “Taos”
  • Bulgarian: “Таос”
  • Catalan: “Taos”
  • Cebuano: “Taos”
  • Chechen: “Таос”
  • Chinese: “Taos”
  • Chinese: “陶斯”
  • Croatian: “Taos, Novi Meksiko”
  • Croatian: “Taos”
  • Czech: “Taos”
  • Dagbani: “Taos”
  • Dutch: “Taos”
  • Finnish: “Taos”
  • French: “Taos”
  • Galician: “Taos”
  • German: “Taos”
  • Gilaki: “تائوس”
  • Hebrew: “טאוס”
  • Hungarian: “Taos”
  • Indonesian: “Taos, New Mexico”
  • Indonesian: “Taos”
  • Irish: “Taos”
  • Italian: “Taos”
  • Japanese: “タオス”
  • Korean: “타오스”
  • Ladin: “Taos”
  • Marathi: “ताओस”
  • Mazanderani: “تائوس (نیومکزیکو)”
  • Mazanderani: “تائوس”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Taos”
  • Navajo: “Tówoł”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Taos”
  • Norwegian: “Taos”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Taos”
  • Persian: “تائوس، نیومکزیکو”
  • Persian: “تائوس”
  • Persian: “تاوس”
  • Polish: “Taos”
  • Portuguese: “Taos”
  • Romanian: “Taos, New Mexico”
  • Romanian: “Taos”
  • Russian: “Таос”
  • Serbian: “Таос (Нови Мексико)”
  • Serbian: “Таос”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Taos, New Mexico”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Taos”
  • Silesian: “Taos”
  • Slovak: “Taos”
  • Slovenian: “Taos”
  • South Azerbaijani: “تائوس، نیومکزیکو”
  • Spanish: “Taos (Nuevo México)”
  • Spanish: “Taos”
  • Swedish: “Taos, New Mexico”
  • Swedish: “Taos”
  • Tatar: “Таос”
  • Ukrainian: “Таос”
  • Urdu: “ٹاوس، نیو میکسیکو”
  • Urdu: “ٹاوس”
  • Vietnamese: “Thành phố Taos, New Mexico”
  • Vietnamese: “Thành phố Taos”
  • Volapük: “Taos, New Mexico”
  • Volapük: “Taos”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Taos, New Mexico”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Taos”
  • Welsh: “Taos, New Mexico”
  • Welsh: “Taos”

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