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Sangre de Cristo Range: 13,325 ft 4062 m: 2,040 ft 622 m: 4.64 mi 7.47 km (Image: Sangre de Cristo range from the Great Sand Dunes National Park) 6 Wheeler Peak: Taos Mountains: 13,167 ft 4013 m: 3,409 ft 1039 m: 37.4 mi 60.1 km Wheeler Peak, of the Wheeler Peak Wilderness, is the highest peak in New Mexico.
- 14,351 ft (4,374 m)
- Rocky Mountains
- 242 mi (389 km) north-south
The Sangre de Cristo Range rises over 7,000 ft (2,100 m) above the valleys and plains to the west and northeast. According to the USGS, the range is the northern part of the larger Sangre de Cristo Mountains, which extend through northern New Mexico.
- 14,345 ft (4,372 m)
Type: mountain range. Description: subrange of the Rocky Mountains New Mexico and Colorado in the United States. Location: North Central New Mexico, New Mexico, Southwest, United States, North America. View on OpenStreetMap. Latitude. 36.02° or 36° 1' 12" north. Longitude. -105.59° or 105° 35' 24" west.
The Sangre de Cristo Range is a subrange of the Rocky Mountains, extending approximately 250 miles from Poncha Pass in South-Central Colorado, reaching all the way to Glorieta Pass, just southeast of Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Click on the map below or here: North, Central, Blanca or South, to see higher resolution maps that link to the photographs of the specific mountains, mostly aerial. Click on the Table to see a list the highest mountains of the Sangre de Cristo Range.
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Note: Range borders shown on map are an approximation and are not authoritative. Click Here for a Full Screen Map. Other Ranges: To go to pages for other ranges either click on the map above, or on range names in the hierarchy snapshot below, which show the parent, siblings, and children of the Sangre de Cristo Range.
Sangre de Cristo Mountains, segment of the southern Rocky Mountains in the United States, extending south-southeastward for about 250 miles (400 km) from Poncha Pass, in south-central Colorado, to the low divide southwest of Las Vegas, New Mexico. Usually considered an extension of the Front Range,
