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Arroyo Del Agua, New Mexico

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Populated place in New Mexico, U.S.

Unincorporated community in New Mexico, United States
Arroyo Del Agua, New Mexico
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Coordinates: 36°9′34″N 106°39′8″W / 36.15944°N 106.65222°W / 36.15944; -106.65222
CountryUnited States
StateNew Mexico
CountyRio Arriba
Elevation6,834 ft (2,083 m)
Time zoneUTC-7 (Mountain (MST))
 • Summer (DST)UTC-6 (MDT)
ZIP codes87012
Area code575
GNIS feature ID903323

Arroyo Del Agua, is a populated place in Rio Arriba County, New Mexico, United States. It lies at an elevation of 6,834 feet / 2,083 meters along the north bank of the Rio Puerco, above its confluence with its tributary Salitral Creek.

History

Arroyo Del Agua, is mentioned in the itinerary of Antonio Armijo as a stopping place of his expedition that pioneered his 1829-1830 route of the Old Spanish Trail between Santa Fe, New Mexico and Mission San Gabriel in California.

References

  1. ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Arroyo del Agua
  2. Diario que formo yo el ciudando Antonio Armijo, como comandante, para el descubrimiento del camino para el punto de las Californias (Diary made by citizen Antonio Armijo as commandant for the discovery of the route to the Californias), Official Register of the Government the United States of Mexico, 1830, pp. 205-206
  3. LeRoy R. Hafen and Antonio Armijo, Armijo's Journal,Huntington Library Quarterly, Vol. 11, No. 1 (Nov., 1947), pp. 87-101, Published by: University of California Press, DOI:10.2307/3816035
Municipalities and communities of Rio Arriba County, New Mexico, United States
County seat: Tierra Amarilla
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