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The Rio Grande Valley State Park is made up of 4,300 acres (17 km 2) of land along both sides of the Rio Grande stretching from the Sandia Pueblo in the north, and south to the Isleta Pueblo. The bosque , or woods, (the local name for the floodplain cottonwood ecosystem) dominates the river valley area.
The Rio Grande Nature Center State Park is a New Mexico State Park located adjacent to the Rio Grande in Albuquerque, New Mexico, US. The Rio Grande Nature Center is a 38-acre urban wildlife preserve established in 1982. About two thirds of the grounds of the park are set aside as habitat for wildlife.
Federal administrators plan to extend the bosque (riparian forest of the Rio Grande) onto the refuge. [3] In 2015, the refuge's land acquisition was finalized, bringing the size of the National Wildlife Refuge to 570.03 acres (230.68 ha). [4] Valle de Oro NWR is designated as an Urban National Wildlife Refuge, due to its proximity to Albuquerque.
Nearby is access to 52 Arkansas state parks, seven national park sites, and three national forests. ... Los Lunas is south of Albuquerque, along the Rio Grande. It is an up-and-comer town with ...
Many of the settling families sold their land to Anglo settlers and speculators after the railroad reached Albuquerque in 1880. In the face of growing demand for more housing, small subdivisions, land holdings and large country estates began to appear along Rio Grande Boulevard, new roads were constructed and existing ones were paved or removed.
Barelas is an inner-city neighborhood of Albuquerque, New Mexico, located immediately south of Downtown. It consists of the triangular area bounded by Coal Avenue, the BNSF railroad tracks, and the Rio Grande. Originally a separate village, it was absorbed into Albuquerque during the railroad-fueled growth of the 1880s but still retains a ...