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Outdoor Activities ...

As we travel, we like to pursue some of our interests (such as astronomy and bird watching).

When in Guadalupe, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Guadalupe and the surrounding area.

  • Weather ...
  • Astronomy & Satellites ...
    • Whether using binoculars, a small telescope or the naked-eye, the Heavens-Above website can help you to find your way around the night-time sky. In addition to detailed sky charts, their website will help you find planets, asteriods, comets, satellites and their tracks across the sky.
    • To give accurate results, Heavens-Above requires the latitude and longitude of your location. As a starting point, when we link to Heavens-Above, we pass this GPS location for Guadalupe:
    • 37.095290, -106.025578
    • Once you're on the Heavens-Above website, you can improve its accuracy by giving a more precise longitude and latitude as your actual position.
    • Open the Heavens-Above website centered on Guadalupe
  • Bird Watching ...
    • We enjoy finding new spots for bird watching and we use the eBird website for local sighting reports and to help identify hotspots.
    • The eBird website is organized on a county-by-county basis. We have selected Conejos County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Conejos County
    • Since Guadalupe is near Rio Arriba County and also Alamosa County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Rio Arriba County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Alamosa County
  • Waymarking ...
    • Looking for somewhere out of the ordinary? Find a unique place and want to share it with others? Then it's time to visit Waymarking.com:
    • Open the Waymark.com report for Guadalupe

Communities Also Named Guadalupe ...

We found eight communities that are also named Guadalupe.

Within Colorado, the name Guadalupe is unique.

Beyond Colorado, we know of eight communities that are located in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Arizona
      • Maricopa County
      • This Guadalupe is located in Maricopa County and lies 422 miles [679.1 km]<1> to the southwest of the Guadalupe that is located in Conejos County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Maricopa County community of Guadalupe.
    • California
      • Santa Barbara County
      • This Guadalupe is located in Santa Barbara County and lies 824 miles [1,326.1 km]<1> to the west of the Guadalupe that is located in Conejos County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Santa Barbara County community of Guadalupe.
      • Santa Clara County
      • This community is historic<2> and we have very little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the California community of Guadalupe [Santa Clara County].
    • New Mexico
      • DeBaca County
      • This Guadalupe is located in DeBaca County and lies 197 miles [317 km]<1> to the south southeast of the Guadalupe that is located in Conejos County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the DeBaca County community of Guadalupe.
      • Sandoval County
      • This Guadalupe is located in Sandoval County and lies 124 miles [199.6 km] to the south southwest of the Guadalupe that is located in Conejos County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Sandoval County community of Guadalupe.
    • Texas
      • Guadalupe County
      • Although located in Guadalupe County, we don't know the location within the county.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Guadalupe County community of Guadalupe.
      • Reeves County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Guadalupe [Reeves County].
      • Victoria County
      • This Guadalupe is located in Victoria County and lies 780 miles [1,255.3 km]<1> to the southeast of the Guadalupe that is located in Conejos County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Victoria County community of Guadalupe.

Curious and Interesting Names Near Guadalupe ...

As we travel, we always see a community with a name that gives pause. While there are names which are interesting or familiar, some catch our attention or strike our fancy. We always wonder about such a name. If time permits and the community is not too far, we'll usually try to make a side-trip.

  • Big Horn
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Big Horn is located in Rio Arriba County (NM)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Big Horn
  • Bountiful
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
    • Bountiful is located in Conejos County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bountiful
  • Fox Creek
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
    • Fox Creek is located in Conejos County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fox Creek
  • Henry
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
    • Henry is located in Alamosa County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Henry
  • Lava ‑ Historic
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
    • Lava is located in Rio Arriba County (NM)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lava
  • Romeo
    (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
  • Sublette
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
    • Sublette is located in Rio Arriba County (NM)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sublette
  • Sunshine
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Sunshine is located in Taos County (NM)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunshine
  • Sunshine Valley
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Sunshine Valley is located in Taos County (NM)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunshine Valley

How Far From Guadalupe to ...

We spend a lot of time looking through Gazetteers that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as Guadalupe to various places of note, such as the White House.

With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Guadalupe and extending to:

  • Conejos, which is the Seat of Conejos County, lies just to the Southeast.
  • Denver, which is the State Capital of Colorado, lies 191 miles [307.4 km]<1> to the north northeast (NNE). If you could drive a straight line from Guadalupe to Denver, with an average speed<5>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take a little over three hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 11 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 8 days.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 1,575 miles [2,534.7 km] to the east northeast (ENE). Driving would take most of three days, a buggy would take 62 days and walking would take 90 days.
  • The shortest distance<6> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 7,056 miles [11,355.5 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<7>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,817 miles [12,580.2 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<8>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,739 miles [9,236 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<9>'

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Guadalupe) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<2>We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Guadalupe, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<3>If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer as a placeholder. As we find more information about that community, it will be added to our Gazetteer.

Just as a reminder: Our definition of a community is rather broad and includes those places (or areas) where several families lived and had a name which identified that place. For example, you might hear somebody say that they are going over to Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's is just a gas station and a couple of homes at the crossroads. While it might not be on the map, everybody in the area knows it by that name.

Places of interest include buildings at a crossroad, several families clustered in a hollow or maybe the location of a way station. It also includes places like mines, lumber camps, ferry crossings, etc. The community might still exist, is now gone or only existed for just a short period of time.

Also keep in mind that Guadalupe could have been on the original document by mistake, misspelled, the original/alternate name of a community that we've listed elsewhere or was placed in the wrong county. Sometimes a post office or train station would have a different name than the community where it's located, so two names might be referring to the same community - we're working to straighten it all out.
<4>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<5>While we have tried to pick reasonable speeds, the rate of travel is very theoretical - obstacles like fences, hills, lakes, river crossings and rest stops have been ignored. When we say 'Days' of travel, we're assuming 8 hours of travel per day.
<6>The shortest line can be visualized by stretching a string on a Globe from Point A to Point B - this is known as a Great Circle Route. Where you might expect the shortest route from Guadalupe to the Middle East to be East and South, the Great Circle Route actually lies to the North and East.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Guadalupe. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 37.0953, Longitude: -106.0256       In this case, the coordinates for Guadalupe have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 327.027 degrees.
<8>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 325.347 degrees.
<9>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 318.779 degrees.