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Hermit Peak Hermit Peak in the Sangre de Cristo range, San Miguel county, New Mexico.

San Miguel

county, New Mexico, United States
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San Miguel, county, north-central New Mexico, U.S. The northwestern portion of the county lies at the southern end of the Sangre de Cristo range of the Southern Rocky Mountains, with Hermit Peak (10,263 feet [3,128 metres]) and Elk Mountain (11,661 feet [3,554 metres]) its highest summits. The county’s southwestern portion, including the Glorieta Mesa, is in the Basin and Range Province. From west to east the land descends, first across the Las Vegas Plateau, which...

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