Elephant Butte (Hidalgo County, New Mexico)

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Elephant Butte is a summit in Hidalgo County, New Mexico. It lies at an elevation of 6,361 feet (1,939 meters), on the Cowboy Rim of the Animas Mountains. [1]

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Cowboy Rim is a cliff that runs along the Continental Divide in the Animas Mountains of Hidalgo County, New Mexico. It runs west from a point at 31°36′34″N108°41′37″W to its highpoint is at an elevation of 6,591 feet at 31°36′36″N108°39′31″W just east of Elephant Butte. Here Cowboy Rim overlooks the Gillespie Creek valley below it to the north, and the Continental Divide runs along this section of the rim, then turns of to the south-southwest from the highpoint, along a ridge west of Elephant Butte Canyon. Cowboy Rim continues eastward to Elephant Butte then turns south-southeastward to 31°32′52″N108°37′22″W. This section of the Rim overlooks the Playas Valley below it to the east.

Elephant Butte Canyon or Lawhorn Canyon is a canyon in the Animas Mountains of Hidalgo County, New Mexico. Its stream is a tributary of Walnut Creek. Its mouth is located at elevation 5,535 feet / 1,687 feet at its confluence with Walnut Creek, just below Lawhorn Tank. Its source is located at 3.5 miles north northeast of its mouth 31°36′25″N108°39′20″W at an elevation of 6,050 feet on the southwest slope of Elephant Butte.

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31°36′40″N108°38′58″W / 31.61111°N 108.64944°W / 31.61111; -108.64944