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San Juan County ( Spanish: Condado de San Juan) is a county located in the U.S. state of New Mexico. As of the 2020 census, the population was 121,661 [ 1] making it the fifth-most populous county in New Mexico. Its county seat is Aztec. [ 2] The county was created in 1887.
The San Juan River is a major tributary of the Colorado River in the Southwestern United States, providing the chief drainage for the Four Corners region of Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and Arizona. Originating as snowmelt in the San Juan Mountains (part of the Rocky Mountains) of Colorado, it flows 383 miles (616 km) [ 2] through the deserts of ...
Ohkay Owingeh ( Tewa: Ohkwee Ówîngeh, pronounced [ʔòhkèː ʔówĩ̂ŋgè] ), [ 2] known by its Spanish name as San Juan Pueblo from 1589 to 2005, is a pueblo in Rio Arriba County, New Mexico. For statistical purposes, the United States Census Bureau has defined that community as a census-designated place (CDP). Ohkay Owingeh is also the ...
San Juan, New Mexico. / 36.05278°N 106.07056°W / 36.05278; -106.07056. San Juan or San Juan Pueblo[ 1] is a census-designated place (CDP) in Rio Arriba County, New Mexico, United States. The population was 592 at the 2000 census .
San Juan Mountains. / 38.07167°N 107.45389°W / 38.07167; -107.45389. The San Juan Mountains is a high and rugged mountain range in the Rocky Mountains in southwestern Colorado and northwestern New Mexico. The area is highly mineralized (the Colorado Mineral Belt) and figured in the gold and silver mining industry of early Colorado.
Ah-Shi-Sle-Pah Wilderness is located in San Juan County, New Mexico, between Chaco Canyon and the De-Na-Zin Wilderness. Its name is a phonetic transliteration of Navajo " áshįįh łibá " meaning "salt, it is grey (grey salt)". The wilderness has multicolored badlands, sandstone hoodoos, petrified wood and dinosaur bones, similar to those ...
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in San Juan County, New Mexico, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many National Register properties and districts; these locations may be seen together in a map.
The Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wilderness is a 45,000-acre (18,000 ha) wilderness area located in San Juan County in the U.S. state of New Mexico. Established in 1984, the Wilderness is a desolate area of steeply eroded badlands managed by the Bureau of Land Management, except three parcels of private Navajo land within its boundaries. [ 1]