Arroyo Del Agua, New Mexico

Arroyo Del Agua, New Mexico
Unincorporated community
Arroyo Del Agua Location within the state of New Mexico Show map of New Mexico Arroyo Del Agua Arroyo Del Agua (the United States) Show map of the United States
Coordinates: 36°9′34″N106°39′8″W / 36.15944°N 106.65222°W / 36.15944; -106.65222
Country	United States
State	New Mexico
County	Rio Arriba
Elevation [1]	2,083 m (6,834 ft)
Time zone	UTC-7 (Mountain (MST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-6 (MDT)
ZIP codes	87012
Area code	575
GNIS feature ID	903323 [1]

Arroyo Del Agua, is a populated place in Rio Arriba County, New Mexico, United States. It lies at an elevation of 6,834 feet / 2,083 meters along the north bank of the Rio Puerco, above its confluence with its tributary Salitral Creek. ^[1]

History

Arroyo Del Agua, is mentioned in the itinerary of Antonio Armijo as a stopping place of his expedition that pioneered his 1829-1830 route of the Old Spanish Trail between Santa Fe, New Mexico and Mission San Gabriel in California. ^{[2] [3]}

References

1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Arroyo del Agua
2. Diario que formo yo el ciudando Antonio Armijo, como comandante, para el descubrimiento del camino para el punto de las Californias (Diary made by citizen Antonio Armijo as commandant for the discovery of the route to the Californias), Official Register of the Government the United States of Mexico, 1830, pp. 205-206
3. LeRoy R. Hafen and Antonio Armijo, Armijo's Journal,Huntington Library Quarterly, Vol. 11, No. 1 (Nov., 1947), pp. 87-101, Published by: University of California Press, DOI:10.2307/3816035