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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 Los Pinos, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Los Pinos 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 Los Pinos:
- 36.988347, -106.064467
- 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 Los Pinos
- 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 Rio Arriba County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Rio Arriba County
- Since Los Pinos is near Conejos County and also Taos County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Conejos County
- Open the eBird sighting report for Taos 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 Los Pinos
Communities Also Named Los Pinos ...
We found two communities that are also named Los Pinos.
There is one other community in New Mexico that is also named Los Pinos.
Beyond New Mexico, there is another community also named Los Pinos in the United States.
- Communities Located In New Mexico ...
- Bernalillo County
- This community is historic<1> and we have very little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the New Mexico community of Los Pinos [Bernalillo County].
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Colorado
- Conejos County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Los Pinos [Conejos County].
Curious and Interesting Names Near Los Pinos ...
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
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
- Big Horn is located in Rio Arriba County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Big Horn
- Bountiful
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
- Bountiful is located in Conejos County (CO)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bountiful
- Fox Creek
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
- Fox Creek is located in Conejos County (CO)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fox Creek
- Guadalupe
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
- Guadalupe is located in Conejos County (CO)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Guadalupe
- Lava ‑ Historic
(Less than 2 miles to the west)
- Lava is located in Rio Arriba County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lava
- Romeo
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
- Sublette
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
- Sublette is located in Rio Arriba County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sublette
- Sunshine
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
- Sunshine is located in Taos County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunshine
- Sunshine Valley
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
- Sunshine Valley is located in Taos County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunshine Valley
How Far From Los Pinos 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 Los Pinos to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<4> beginning in Los Pinos and extending to:
- Tierra Amarilla, which is the Seat of Rio Arriba County, lies 33 miles [53.1 km]<4> to the southwest. If you could walk a straight line from Los Pinos to Tierra Amarilla, with an average speed<5> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take most of two days to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take just over a day.
- Santa Fe, which is the State Capital of New Mexico, lies 90 miles [144.8 km] to the south (S). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take less than two hours, a buggy would take most of three days and walking would take 6 days.
- The White House (Washington, DC) is 1,579 miles [2,541.2 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 7,064 miles [11,368.4 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 7,824 miles [12,591.5 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<8>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,746 miles [9,247.3 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<9>'
Footnotes ...
| <1> | 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 Los Pinos, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <2> | 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 Los Pinos 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. |
| <3> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <4> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Los Pinos) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |
| <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 Los Pinos 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 Los Pinos. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 36.9883, Longitude: -106.0645 In this case, the coordinates for Los Pinos have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <7> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 327.043 degrees. |
| <8> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 325.356 degrees. |
| <9> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 318.808 degrees. |
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