
Tijeras Canyon - Tijeras, New Mexico
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gparkes
N 35° 04.826 W 106° 23.227
13S E 373543 N 3882842
This marker on the outskirts of Albuquerque.
Waymark Code: WMAC19
Location: New Mexico, United States
Date Posted: 12/21/2010
Views: 14
Text of the marker reads:
Tijeras Canyon
This pass between the Sandia and Manzano Mountains has been a natural route for travel between eastern New Mexico and the Rio Grande Valley since pre-historic times. Known as Canon de Carnue in the Spanish colonial period, it takes its present name fromt the villiage of Tijeras, Spanish for "scissors."