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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.
    • The Heavens-Above Website, centered on Guadalupe
  • 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:
    • Waymark.com

Communities Also Named Guadalupe ...

We found eight communities that share the name Guadalupe.

Within Colorado, the name Guadalupe is unique.

Beyond Colorado, we know of another eight communities that are located throughout 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)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Big Horn have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Big Horn
    • Big Horn is located in Rio Arriba County (NM)
  • Bountiful
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bountiful
    • Bountiful is located in Conejos County
  • Fox Creek
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Fox Creek have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fox Creek
    • Fox Creek is located in Conejos County
  • Henry
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Henry
    • Henry is located in Alamosa County
  • Lava ‑ Historic
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Lava. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lava
    • Lava is located in Rio Arriba County (NM)
  • Romeo
    (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Romeo have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Romeo
    • Romeo is located in Conejos County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 417 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Romeo <6>
  • Sublette
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sublette
    • Sublette is located in Rio Arriba County (NM)
  • Sunshine
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Sunshine have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunshine
    • Sunshine is located in Taos County (NM)
  • Sunshine Valley
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Sunshine Valley have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunshine Valley
    • Sunshine Valley is located in Taos County (NM)

How Far From Guadalupe to ...

We spend a lot of time looking through Gazetteers & Almanacs 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<7>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<8> 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).<9>
  • 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).<10>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,739 miles [9,236 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<11>

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Guadalupe. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.

The official website for State of Colorado: https://www.colorado.gov/

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Guadalupe) to Point B.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).
<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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock Creek 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>The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
<5>An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace.
<6>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<7>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.
<8>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.
<9>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 327.027 degrees.
<10>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 325.347 degrees.
<11>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 318.779 degrees.









 

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