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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 Las Colonias, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Las Colonias and the surrounding area.
- 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 Las Colonias:
- 35.374482, -106.485581
- 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 Las Colonias
- 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 Sandoval County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Sandoval County
- Since Las Colonias is near Bernalillo County and also Santa Fe County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Bernalillo County
- Open the eBird sighting report for Santa Fe 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 Las Colonias
Communities Also Named Las Colonias ...
We found two communities that are also named Las Colonias.
There is one other community in New Mexico that is also named Las Colonias.
Beyond New Mexico, there is another community also named Las Colonias in the United States.
- Communities Located In New Mexico ...
- Guadalupe County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the New Mexico community of Las Colonias [Guadalupe County].
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Texas
- Zavala County
- This Las Colonias is located in Zavala County and lies 601 miles [967.2 km]<2> to the southeast of the Las Colonias that is located in Sandoval County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Zavala County community of Las Colonias.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Las Colonias ...
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.
- Cedar Crest
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
- Coyote ‑ Historic
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
- Coyote is located in Sandoval County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coyote
- Desert Mountain
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
- Desert Mountain is located in Sandoval County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Desert Mountain
- Forest Park
(18 miles [29 km] to the south)
- Forest Park is located in Bernalillo County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Forest Park
- Frost ‑ Historic
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
- Frost is located in Bernalillo County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Frost
- Golden ‑ Historic
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
- Golden is located in Santa Fe County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Golden
- Madrid
(18 miles [29 km] to the east)
- Montezuma ‑ Historic
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
- Montezuma is located in Sandoval County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Montezuma
- Paradise Hills
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
- Paradise Hills is located in Bernalillo County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Paradise Hills
- Sundance Mesa
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
- Sundance Mesa is located in Sandoval County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sundance Mesa
- Waldo ‑ Historic
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
- Waldo is located in Santa Fe County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Waldo
How Far From Las Colonias 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 Las Colonias to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Las Colonias and extending to:
- Bernalillo, which is the Seat of Sandoval County, lies just to the Southwest.
- Santa Fe, which is the State Capital of New Mexico, lies 36 miles [57.9 km]<2> to the northeast (NE). If you could walk a straight line from Las Colonias to Santa Fe, with an average speed<4> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take over two days to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take just about two full days.
- The White House (Washington, DC) is 1,632 miles [2,626.4 km] to the east northeast (ENE). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take most of three days, a buggy would take 64 days and walking would take 93 days.
- The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 7,170 miles [11,539 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<6>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,929 miles [12,760.5 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<7>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,846 miles [9,408.2 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>'
Footnotes ...
| <1> | 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 Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird 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 Las Colonias 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. |
| <2> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Las Colonias) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |
| <3> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <4> | 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. |
| <5> | 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 Las Colonias 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 Las Colonias. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 35.3745, Longitude: -106.4856 In this case, the coordinates for Las Colonias have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <6> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 327.154 degrees. |
| <7> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 325.319 degrees. |
| <8> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 319.142 degrees. |
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