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Shiprock ( Navajo: Naatʼáanii Nééz) is an unincorporated community on the Navajo reservation in San Juan County, New Mexico, United States. The population was 7,718 people in the 2020 census.
Shiprock ( Navajo: Tsé Bitʼaʼí, "rock with wings" or "winged rock" [4]) is a monadnock rising nearly 1,583 feet (482 m) above the high-desert plain of the Navajo Nation in San Juan County, New Mexico, United States. Its peak elevation is 7,177 feet (2,188 m) above sea level.
May 17, 2022 · Ship Rock is a dramatic 7,177-foot-high (2,188-meter) rock mountain located in northwestern New Mexico about 20 miles southwest of the town of Shiprock. The formation, a volcanic plug, rises above a barren desert plain south of the San Juan River.
You will take the US 491 south of shiprock and just after crossing the shiprock airfield make a right on the indian service rte 13. A few miles into the indian service rte 13 you will come across a dirt road right in front of a wall of smaller rock formations leading to the shiprock.
Drive along U.S. Highway 491 in the Four Corners region of northwestern New Mexico, and you’re sure to see rising out of the vast, high-desert plain the iconic stone sentinel — Shiprock — that, perhaps more than anything, defines the Land of Enchantment.
Shiprock is an iconic landmark of northwestern New Mexico; a jagged, black, volcanic peak that rises 1,800 feet above the high desert plains of the Navajo Indian Reservation.
Apr 11, 2024 · The Shiprock is a monadnock, an isolated rock hill that rises abruptly from a virtually flat surrounding. Shiprock is composed of fractured volcanic breccia and black dikes of igneous rock called Minette, or lamprophyre. It is the erosional remnant of the throat of a volcano.
Shiprock, New Mexico. Known today most commonly by the name Shiprock, the 1700-foot eroded volcanic plume is sacred to the Navahos as Tse Bi dahi, or the Rock with Wings.
Located just 15 miles southwest of the small town of Shiprock, New Mexico, the rock formation seems out of place, alone, and unchallenged among the landscape, making it the dominating feature of the land in all directions.
Jun 19, 2024 · Located 15 miles southwest of the town of Shiprock, New Mexico is a unique towering, bird-like volcanic rock formation that can be seen for miles in all directions. Shiprock, as this mighty sand-colored column was named by Anglo settlers, is known to the Navajo as “Tsé Bit’ a’í”, or rock with wings. The peak is 7,178 above sea level ...
