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This is a list of valleys of New Mexico. Valleys are ordered alphabetically, by county. This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (November 2010)
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The Valles Caldera (or Jemez Caldera) is a 13.7-mile (22.0 km) wide volcanic caldera in the Jemez Mountains of northern New Mexico. [1] Hot springs, streams, fumaroles, natural gas seeps, and volcanic domes dot the caldera landscape. [4]
The valley runs through Albuquerque Basin, the location of Albuquerque, New Mexico's largest city, between the aptly named East and West Mesas. It is also the location of Rio Grande Valley State Park. The valley narrows to the south of this basin before entering the Socorro Basin near Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge.
The Playas Valley is a lengthy and narrow 60-mi (97-km) long, valley located in Hidalgo County, New Mexico in the Bootheel Region; the extreme south of the valley lies in Chihuahua. Playas, New Mexico is located in the northeast. The valley is noteworthy for the Playas Lake, a dry lake in the north.
The fertile Mesilla Valley extends from Radium Springs, New Mexico, to the west side of El Paso, Texas. [1] The valley is characterized by its few remaining bosques, as well as its native cottonwood trees, and increasingly, by invasive tamarisk, which was introduced in the late 19th century, and is known locally as salt cedar.
Basins of the Rio Grande Rift Map of physiographic provinces of New Mexico. New Mexico is entirely landbound, with just 0.2% of the state covered with water, [1] and most of the state has an arid to semiarid climate. [2] Much of the state is mountainous, except for the easternmost Great Plains region. [3]
[21] [22] The southern sections of the Rio Grande and Pecos valleys have 20,000 square miles (52,000 square kilometres) of New Mexico's best grazing land and irrigated farmland. New Mexico's varied climate and vegetation zones consequently support diverse wildlife.