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4 unusual facts about Sangre de Cristo


Eastern New Mexico

The region typically lacks the high relief of central and northern New Mexico, such as that in the Sangre de Cristo and Sandia mountain ranges.

Sangre de Cristo

Sangre de Cristo Range, the northernmost portion of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, located entirely in Colorado

Sangre de Cristo Mountains, in Northern New Mexico and South-Central Colorado in the United States

Spanish Peaks Wilderness

The Spanish Peaks are geologically distinct from the faulted and uplifted mountains of the Sangre de Cristo range to the west.



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Adjuncts

One of the most popular American chile beers is produced by Eske's (aka Sangre de Cristo Brewing) in Taos, New Mexico.

Coyote Creek State Park

70 million years ago the Laramide orogeny uplifted the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, steeply tilting the earlier sediments down to the east.

Mickey Hart's Mystery Box

Robin Millarmarimba on "The Sandman", sine bass on "Only the Strange Remain", "Sangre de Cristo", keyboards on "John Cage is Dead"

Tucker Smallwood

Their self-titled first album, produced in 1994 at Clark Dimond's Dimond Studio in Colorado's Sangre de Cristo Mountains, is a tribute to the music of Delta Blues King Robert Johnson with 15 tracks written by or associated with Johnson.