Elephant Butte Canyon or Lawhorn Canyon is a
canyon
A canyon (from ; archaic British English spelling: ''cañon''), or gorge, is a deep cleft between escarpments or cliffs resulting from weathering and the erosion, erosive activity of a river over geologic time scales. Rivers have a natural tenden ...
in the
Animas Mountains of
Hidalgo County, New Mexico. Its stream is a tributary of
Walnut Creek. Its mouth is located at elevation 5,535 feet / 1,687 feet at its confluence with Walnut Creek, just below Lawhorn Tank. Its source is located at 3.5 miles north northeast of its mouth at an elevation of on the southwest slope of
Elephant Butte.
References
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Landforms of Hidalgo County, New Mexico
Canyons and gorges of New Mexico
Rivers of New Mexico
Rivers of Hidalgo County, New Mexico