Ojo Caliente, is a

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in the

Monticello Canyon Monticello Canyon, originally known in Spanish as the Cañada Alamosa (Glen of the Cottonwoods), is a valley or glen drained by Alamosa Creek in Sierra County and Socorro County, New Mexico. Its mouth is at an elevation of , in Sierra County. It ...

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. It is located at an elevation of in Spring Canyon, a tributary of Alamosa Creek. The Apache tribe, specifically the

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, were very fond of the area.

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considered setting up a

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here in the 19th century, but believed that the amount of arable land was "far too small" for their needs.

References

Springs of New Mexico Bodies of water of Socorro County, New Mexico {{NewMexico-geo-stub