Elephant Butte Dam
Elephant Butte Dam or Elephant Butte Dike, originally Engle Dam, is a concrete gravity dam on the Rio Grande near Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, in the United States.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Elephant Butte.
Elephant Butte
Peak
Elephant Butte is a summit that is now in the Elephant Butte Reservoir and within the Elephant Butte Lake State Park in Sierra County, New Mexico. It has an elevation of 4,639 feet.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Elephant Butte and Truth or Consequences.
Elephant Butte
Village
Photo: AllenS, Public domain.
Elephant Butte is a city in Sierra County, New Mexico, United States, located near Elephant Butte Reservoir and Elephant Butte Lake State Park. The population was 1,447 at the time of the 2020 census. Elephant Butte is situated 3½ miles northwest of Elephant Butte Dam.
Truth or Consequences
Truth or Consequences, locally called T or C and formerly known as Hot Springs, is a town in New Mexico in the United States of America. It gets its curious name from a 1950s-vintage television show that offered to film an episode in some little town far from Hollywood, if that town would change its name to match the show's.
Elephant Butte Dam
- Type: Dam
- Description: New Mexico Place listed on National Register of Historic Places
- Location: Sierra, New Mexico, Southwest, United States, North America
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Latitude
33.15475° or 33° 9′ 17″ northLongitude
-107.1925° or 107° 11′ 33″ westOpen location code
855J5R35+W2OpenStreetMap ID
way 142436079OpenStreetMap feature
waterway=damWikidata ID
Q5359304
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In Other Languages
From Egyptian Arabic to Russian—“Elephant Butte Dam” goes by many names.
- Egyptian Arabic: “سد الفيل”
- German: “Elephant Butte Dam”
- Italian: “diga di Elephant Butte”
- Japanese: “エレファント・ビュート・ダム”
- Russian: “Элефант-Бьютт (плотина)”
- Russian: “Элефант-Бьютт”
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Elephant Butte Hydroelectric Plant and Elephant Butte Dam Historical Marker.
Nearby Places
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