Arroyo Del Agua, New Mexico Explained

Arroyo Del Agua, New Mexico
Settlement Type:Unincorporated community
Pushpin Map:USA New Mexico#USA
Pushpin Label:Arroyo Del Agua
Pushpin Label Position:bottom
Pushpin Map Caption:Location within the state of New Mexico
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name:United States
Subdivision Type1:State
Subdivision Name1:New Mexico
Subdivision Type2:County
Subdivision Name2:Rio Arriba
Population As Of:2000
Population Density Km2:auto
Timezone:Mountain (MST)
Utc Offset:-7
Timezone Dst:MDT
Utc Offset Dst:-6
Elevation Ft:6,834
Coordinates:36.1594°N -106.6522°W
Postal Code Type:ZIP codes
Postal Code:87012
Area Code:575
Blank Name:FIPS code
Blank1 Name:GNIS feature ID
Blank1 Info:903323

Arroyo Del Agua, is a populated place in Rio Arriba County, New Mexico, United States. It lies at an elevation of 6834feet along the north bank of the Rio Puerco, above its confluence with its tributary Salitral Creek.

History

Arroyo Del Agua, is mentioned in the itinerary of Antonio Armijo as a stopping place of his expedition that pioneered his 1829-1830 route of the Old Spanish Trail between Santa Fe, New Mexico and Mission San Gabriel in California.[1] [2]

Notes and References

  1. http://www.oldspanishtrail.org/assets/downloads/Armijo1830SpanishDiaryUNMRoneyDec09.pdf. Diario que formo yo el ciudando Antonio Armijo, como comandante, para el descubrimiento del camino para el punto de las Californias (Diary made by citizen Antonio Armijo as commandant for the discovery of the route to the Californias), Official Register of the Government the United States of Mexico, 1830, pp. 205-206
  2. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3816035 LeRoy R. Hafen and Antonio Armijo, Armijo's Journal,Huntington Library Quarterly, Vol. 11, No. 1 (Nov., 1947), pp. 87-101, Published by: University of California Press, DOI:10.2307/3816035